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`C_(4)` plants are twice as efficient as `C_(3)` plants in terms of fixing carbon (making sugar)

A

half

B

twice

C

same

D

double

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B
C plants are photosynthically more efficient then C, plants because they have double fixation of `CO_(2)`.
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