carbon fixation

British  

noun

1. the process by which plants assimilate carbon from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to form metabolically active compounds

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carbon fixation Scientific  

1. The process in plants and algae by which atmospheric carbon dioxide is converted into organic carbon compounds, such as carbohydrates, usually by photosynthesis.

2. See more at carbon cycle

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Example Sentences

By limiting the activity of these oxidizers with a specialized chemical, the team expected to see a sharp drop in carbon fixation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

Notably, approximately one-third of global carbon fixation is estimated to occur within algal pyrenoids.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

This process is called carbon fixation, because CO2 is “fixed” from an inorganic form into organic molecules.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Most ecosystems on Earth are powered from the base up by sunlight, which drives carbon fixation through photosynthesis.

From Scientific American • Feb. 3, 2015

Alternatively, photosynthetic protists serve as producers of nutrition for other organisms by carbon fixation.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013