Photorespiration in $C_{3}$ plants start from

Phoshoglycerate.

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Glycerate.

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Glycine.

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Phoshoglycolate.

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Solution

The correct option is D Phoshoglycolate.
Photorespiration leads to loss of fixed carbon dioxide in C $_{3}$ plants. The enzyme is RUBISCO. During photorespiration, this enzymes reacts with oxygen instead of carbon dioxide to ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate to produce phosphoglycolate as the first product.

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