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pseudocyclic

pseudocyclic adjective: describing a variant of the cyclic photophosphorylation process of photosynthesis in which molecular oxygen replaces one of the other moieties in part of the cycle.

Adjective

pseudocyclic (not comparable)

  1. Describing a variant of the cyclic photophosphorylation process of photosynthesis in which molecular oxygen replaces one of the other moieties in part of the cycle

Origin of pseudocyclic

From pseudo- + cyclic.

Questions about pseudocyclic

What does pseudocyclic mean?
Pseudocyclic means describing a variant of the cyclic photophosphorylation process of photosynthesis in which molecular oxygen replaces one of the other moieties in part of the cycle.
What part of speech is pseudocyclic?
Pseudocyclic is an adjective.

Words near pseudocyclic in the dictionary

  1. pseudocumenes
  2. pseudocusp
  3. pseudocusps
  4. pseudocycle
  5. pseudocycles
  6. pseudocyclic
  7. pseudocyclopiid
  8. pseudocyclopiids
  9. pseudocyeses
  10. pseudocyesis
  11. pseudocyetic

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