Word.ws English Dictionary

ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase

ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase noun: the enzyme that allows plants, algae, and some bacteria to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into organic compounds during photosynthesis. It catalyzes the first major step of the Calvin cycle, making it one of the most important enzymes for sustaining life on Earth.

ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase: the enzyme that allows plants, algae, and some bacteria to capture carbon dioxide from the...
Image: Ericlin1337, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase (uncountable, abbreviation RuBisCO)

  1. The enzyme that allows plants, algae, and some bacteria to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into organic compounds during photosynthesis. It catalyzes the first major step of the Calvin cycle, making it one of the most important enzymes for sustaining life on Earth.

Forms of ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase

abbreviationRuBisCO

Origin of ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase

From ribulose + bisphosphate + carboxylase + oxygenase

Words formed from ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase

  • Ribulose-1
  • 5-bisphosphate carboxylase
  • oxygenase

Questions about ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase

What does ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase mean?
Ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase means the enzyme that allows plants, algae, and some bacteria to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into organic compounds during photosynthesis. It catalyzes the first major step of the Calvin cycle, making it one of the most important enzymes for sustaining life on Earth.
What part of speech is ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase?
Ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase is a noun.

Words near ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase in the dictionary

  1. Ribstons
  2. ribuck
  3. ribulokinase
  4. ribulokinases
  5. ribulose
  6. ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase
  7. ribuloses
  8. riburamycin
  9. riburamycins
  10. ribwich
  11. ribwiches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ribulosebisphosphatecarboxylaseoxygenase. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.