Question

Melvin Calvin worked on

• A. ATP synthesis during photosynthesis
• B. water release during photosynthesis
• C. carbon fixation during photosynthesis
• D. capture of light during photosynthesis

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

carbon fixation during photosynthesis

Answer 2

Calvin worked on carbon fixation during photosynthesis. His observation is described as dark reactions or Calvin cycle. It is a series of enzymatic photosynthetic reactions in which $CO_{2}$ is reduced to $3 - PGA$, for every 6 molecules of $CO_{2}$ that enter the cycle