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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A series of chemical reactions that occur as part of photosynthesis, in which carbon is broken away from gaseous carbon dioxide and fixed as organic carbon in compounds that are ultimately converted into sugars.
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- noun biochemistry A series of
biochemical reactions that take place in thestroma ofchloroplasts inphotosynthetic organisms .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Melvin Calvin.]
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After its joint discoverer Melvin Ellis Calvin (1911-1997).
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