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Tropical plants like Sugarcane show high efficiency of carbon dioxide fixation because of

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Calvin cycle
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Hatch-Slack cycle
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Cyclic- photophosphorylation
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TCA cycle
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Solution

The correct option is B Hatch-Slack cycle
Tropical plants such as Sugarcane follow the Hatch-Slack cycle or the C4 cycle.
By following this cycle, such plants, also known as C4 plants overcome the tendency of the enzyme RuBisCO to wastefully fix oxygen instead carbon dioxide in the process of photorespiration.
This is achieved by ensuring that RuBisCo works in an environment where there is a lot of carbon dioxide and very little oxygen.
Therefore, C4 plants are more efficient at fixing carbon dioxide in drought, high temperatures, and limitations of nitrogen.

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