Question

The name, Melvin Calvin is associated with

• A. Synthesis of ATP during photosynthesis
• B. Release of water during photosynthesis
• C. Carbon fixation during photosynthesis
• D. Capture light energy during photosynthesis

Answer 1

The correct option is C Carbon fixation during photosynthesis

The Calvin cycle is a metabolic pathway found in the stroma of the chloroplast in which carbon enters in the form of $C{O}_2$ and leaves in the form of sugar. The cycle spends ATP as an energy source and consumes $NADP{H}_2$ as reducing power for adding high energy electrons to make the sugar. Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in chemistry.