Number of organelles required for photorespiration is
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
Answer: Option C
Solution(By Examveda Team)
The number of organelles required for photorespiration is three.Photorespiration refers to a process in plant metabolism where the enzyme RuBisCO oxygenates RuBP, wasting some of the energy produced by photosynthesis.
Photorespiration involves a complex network of enzyme reactions that exchange metabolites between chloroplasts, leaf peroxisomes and mitochondria, and these are the three organelles required for this process.
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