"Big-picture" worksheets to help students learn and understand the pentose phosphate pathway and the Calvin cycle

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 541-545

  Sims, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldehydes Ketones; Biochemistry; Biosynthesis; Carbohydrates; Catalysis; Communication Writing; Enzymes; Metabolism; Upper Division Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898007844     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed300898c     Document Type: Article

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