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photorespiration. In a plant cell, the breakdown of a two-carbon compound produced by the Calvin cycle. The Calvin cycle produces the two-carbon compound, instead of its usual three-carbon product G3P, when leaf cells fix O2, instead of CO2. Photorespiration produces no sugar molecules or ATP.
1 means sugar splitting. 2  during glycolysis, glucose ( a six-carbon sugar) is split into two three-carbon sugars.  the smaller sugars are then oxidized and their remaining atoms rearranged to form two molecules of pyruvate.