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Crassulacean acid metabolism, an Uncommon card
Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions that allows a plant to photosynthesize during the day, but only exchange gases at night.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 153
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 41,000
Ranked #1,630 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In a plant using full CAM, the stomata in the leaves remain shut during the day to reduce transpiration, but they open at night to collect carbon dioxide and allow it to diffuse into the mesophyll cells.
- The CO2 is stored as four-carbon malic acid in vacuoles at night, and then in the daytime, the malate is transported to chloroplasts where it is converted back to CO2, which is then used during photosynthesis.
- The pre-collected CO2 is concentrated around the enzyme RuBisCO, increasing photosynthetic efficiency.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Crassulacean acid metabolism article was read about 41,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Crassulacean acid metabolism (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MANOJTV at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.




