While conversion of phosphoglyceric acid into phosphoglyceraldehyde during photosynthesis one of the following reactions occur
A
Oxidation
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B
Reduction
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C
Electrolysis
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D
Hydrolosis
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Solution
The correct option is D Reduction In Calvin cycle, carbon dioxide along with water gets converts into phosphoglyceric acid. Then this phosphoglyceric acid converts into phosphoglyceraldehyde or glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate (G3P) with the use of ATP and NADPH. In this reaction NADPH gets oxidised to NADP+. Thus, this reaction is called as reduction reaction. Thus option B is correct. The other options are incorrect.