Probably the same as any other major... probably even shorter than some (such as pre-med), so 4 years. For my school, you need Intro, Research Methods, Stats, 6 electives and 3 courses from another social science (I chose anthropology, but you can do political science, economics, psychology, etc).
1 Rubisco, the enzyme that is responsible for carbon fixation (combining CO2 with RuBP), can also add O2 to RuBP. 2  When the O2 concentration within a leaf becomes greater than the CO2 concentration, rubisco will add O2 to RuBP instead of CO2.  The resulting molecule cannot be used in the Calvin cycle.
As shown in Figure 2 (left), RuBisCO is one of many enzymes in the Calvin cycle. Substrates. During carbon fixation, the substrate molecules for RuBisCO are ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate and carbon dioxide (distinct from the activating carbon dioxide). RuBisCO also catalyses a reaction between ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate and molecular oxygen (O