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define C3 CYCLE & C4 cycle.
The 3 - carbon compound formed is the first stable product of this pathway and hence the name C3 pathway.This path way was knows as C4 cycle because the first stable product was a 4-C compound. It is also knows as hatch slack pathway in honour of the two scientists.

The plants which exhibit this cycle are knows as C4 plants. The common example of C4 plants are tropical grasses, sugar cane, maize cynodon etc.


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