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rubisco

rubisco

See also: RuBisCO

English

Noun

rubisco ‎(plural rubiscos)

  1. (biochemistry) a plant enzyme which catalyzes both the fixing of atmospheric carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and the reverse process of photorespiration

Etymology

Normalized to lower case from RuBisCO, a semi-acronym of its full name ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase.

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