Timeline for Why does photosynthesis specifically produce glucose?
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| Jun 7, 2022 at 14:52 | history | edited | Logan R. Kearsley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2022 at 7:13 | comment | added | Luaan | @user338907 The plants use the glucose too. It's not (just) a waste product. It isn't particularly helpful to extract the most amount of energy out of photosynthesis just to then waste way more than that when trying to build e.g. cellulose. Evolution doesn't select the "best" process in isolation, it's always part of a specific environment. Mind, that's not knowing where glucose came from - it's very likely that was long before photosynthesis developed. And of course, photosynthesis doesn't actually produce glucose - it produces GAP/G3P. That's quickly turned into glucose, usually. | |
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| Jun 6, 2022 at 22:49 | answer | added | Darlingtonia | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jun 6, 2022 at 20:20 | comment | added | user338907 | Or why a sugar at all? CO(2) is the most oxidized form of a single carbon atom, and in photosynthesis carbon is reduced (where water is the source of electrons), but not fully reduced: the most reduced form of a C-6 compound is hexane, not glucose (and the most reduced form of a single carbon atom is methane) | |
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| S Jun 6, 2022 at 20:07 | history | asked | Logan R. Kearsley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |