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Why does a plant need to go through the Calvin Cycle?
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to make ATP for cellular respiration
to make NADPH for cellular respiration
to make glucose for cellular respiration
to make CO2 for cellular respiration

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to make glucose for cellular respiration

The Calvin cycle uses CO2, ATP and NADPH from the light reactions to build triose sugars that are ultimately assembled into glucose, which the plant can break down in cellular respiration for energy.