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What is RuBP?

RuBP stands for Ribulose-bisphosphate, or more specifically ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate.

RuBP is a modified 5 carbon sugar, ribulose, that also contains 2 phospates. In the Calvin-Benson cycle (sometimes called the "dark reactions" of photosynthesis), RuBP is the molecule that is bound to ##"CO"_2## during carbon fixation by the enzyme RuBisCO (Ribulose-bisphosphate corboxylase/oxygenase).

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