Why hasn't C4 Photosynthesis taken over as the dominant process?

Subject: Why hasn't C4 Photosynthesis taken over as the dominant process?

Date: Sun Oct 11 19:40:15 1998
Posted by Gilbert Douglas
Grade level: undergrad
School: Samford University
City: Birmingham State/Province: AL
Country: USA
Area of science: Botany
ID: 908152815.Bt

Message:


In conparing C3 and C4 photosynthesis, what advantages do C4 plants 
have over C3 plants? And if C4 is a better process, why hasn't it 
become the dominant process?

Thanks,

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