triose phosphate
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The simple sugar produced; two molecules can be joined to give a hexose sugar such as glucose.
GP is reduced to this using reduced NADP and ATP, and some of it is used to regenerate RuBP.
Glucose phosphate is split into two molecules of the three-carbon triose phosphate.
Topics that use triose phosphate
- Photosynthesis (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Respiration (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- active transport
- anaerobic stage
- ATP hydrolase
- ATP hydrolysis
- chemiosmosis
- colorimetry
- continuation of glycolysis
- DCPIP
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