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BiologyPhotosynthesis in Higher PlantsNEET

If photosynthesising green algae are provided with CO2 labelled with an isotope of oxygen (18O), later analysis showed that all of the following compounds produced by the algae contain 18O, except

Answer: (D)

Solution

Since the O2 evolved during photosynthesis comes from the splitting of water (not CO2), labelling CO2

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