C4 carbon fixation Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach C4 carbon fixation.

  • 2 Encyclopedia Articles

Study Pack

The C4 carbon fixation Study Pack contains:

Encyclopedia Articles (2)

444 words, approx. 2 pages
Hatch-Slack Photosynthetic Pathway In the 1960s, two Australian scientists, M.D. Hatch and C.R. Slack described a new pathway for carbon fixation in photosynthesis. The Hatch-Slack pathway describes a... Read more
415 words, approx. 2 pages
Kranz Anatomy The leaves of green plants using the C4 or Hatch-Slack pathway for photosynthetic carbon fixation almost invariably have a specialized internal arrangement of cells surrounding the vascu... Read more