C3 Photosynthesis. Plants which use only the Calvin cycle for fixing the carbon dioxide from the air are known as C3 plants. In the first step of the cycle CO 2 reacts with RuBP to produce two 3-carbon molecules of 3-phosphoglyceric acid (3-PGA).4 plants almost never saturate with light and under hot, dry conditions much outperform C3 plants. They use a two-stage process were CO 2 is fixed in thin-walled mesophyll cells to form a 4-carbon intermediate, typically malate (malic acid).
A molecular formula lists the numbers of the atoms of a specific element in a compound. A structural formula is a picture of how the atoms in a specific molecule are connectedâ¦, with each atom represented by its chemical symbol. For example, oxygen's molecular formula is O2. Its structural formula is O-O.
In chemistry, we often use symbols to identify elements and molecules. Molecular formula and empirical formula are two such symbolical methods we use to represent molecules and compounds in an easy way. Molecular formula is the formula showing the type of atoms and number of each atom connected in the molecule. Therefore, it gives the correct stoichiometry of each atom. The atoms are depicted by their symbols, which are shown in the periodic table. And the numbers of atoms are written as subscripts.