Was bored so I Googled the most important enzyme on Earth and rubisco was the overwhelming choice of the biology community.
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Bio-chemistry is out of my league but.....It's this part about entering the organic biosphere that intrigued me somewhat. Like what is the difference between inorganic carbon and I would assume organic carbon? Isn't it still carbon except now it's living? or part of something alive? Not quite sure how to approach this but if this enzyme was an evolutionary adaptation, what preceded it? Or has it always been present? I mean if rubisco was absent during the formation of life on the planet was some other catalyst at work? Could one enzyme be the difference between the organic and inorganic? I wonder since the enzyme is so important to life that those trying to recreate life in the lab have looked at this.RuBisCO is important biologically because it catalyzes the primary chemical reaction by which inorganic carbon enters the organic biosphere.