Carbon fixation | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fixation 00:01:14 1 Net vs gross COsub2/sub fixation 00:02:08 2 Overview of pathways 00:02:48 3 Oxygenic photosynthesis 00:06:08 3.1 Evolutionary considerations 00:07:19 3.2 COsub2/sub concentrating mechanisms 00:09:04 3.2.1 CAM plants 00:09:57 3.2.2 Csub4/sub plants 00:10:55 3.2.3 Csub3/sub plants 00:11:42 3.2.4 Bacteria and Cyanobacteria 00:12:04 4 Other autotrophic pathways 00:12:27 4.1 Reductive citric acid cycle 00:13:13 4.2 Reductive acetyl CoA pathway 00:14:13 4.3 3-Hydroxypropionate and two related cycles 00:15:31 5 Chemosynthesis 00:16:04 6 Non-autotrophic pathways 00:16:45 7 Carbon isotope discrimination Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: increases imagination and understanding improves your listening skills improves your own spoken accent learn while on the move reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.7610983532113699 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." Socrates SUMMARY Carbon fixation or сarbon assimilation is the conversion process of inorganic carbon (carbon dioxide) to organic compounds by living organisms. The most prominent example is photosynthesis, although chemosynthesis is another form of carbon fixation that can take place in the absence of sunlight. Organisms that grow by fixing carbon are called autotrophs. Autotrophs include photoautotrophs, which synthesize organic compounds using the energy of sunlight, and lithoautotrophs, which synthesize organic compounds using the energy of inorganic oxidation. Heterotrophs are organisms that grow using the carbon fixed by autotrophs. The organic compounds are used by heterotrophs to produce energy and to build body structures. "Fixed carbon", "reduced carbon", and "organic carbon" are equivalent terms for various organic compounds.