Botany - Photosynthesis in Higher Plants Question with Solution | TestHub

PGA also is known as 3-phosphoglyceric acid was discovered in the photosynthesis of alga. Melvin Calvin was responsible for this discovery as he used radioactive C¹⁴in algal (chlorella) photosynthetic studies which led to the first carbon-dioxide fixation product which is PGA. This acid also acts as an enzyme in the conversion of$\mathrm{C}{\mathrm{O}}_2$to organic acid.