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Biochemistry
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Sex is far more widespread than seems reasonable.
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― The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
― The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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The need to prevent ferredoxin reacting with oxygen might also explain the propensity of rubisco to fix O2 through the apparently futile process of photorespiration. Very little in evolution is genuinely futile; if it survives natural selection there is usually a reason. In the case of rubisco, think what happens if CO2 levels fall while O2 levels rise inside a leaf (when the stomatal pores are closed). Now rubisco is obliged to slow down because its substrate, CO2, is in short supply. This mean
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― Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
― Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
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