All of the following are characteristics of CAM plants EXCEPT: A) the stroma are open during the night and closed during the day. B) they try to avoid loss of water by evaporation. C) there is an accumulation of CO₂ fixation into the organic acids OAA and malate. D) during the night, dicarboxylic acid are stored within the vacuoles. E) CO₂ is fixed by rubisco during the night.

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All of the other choices are characteristics of CAM plants, but in fact, CAM plants fix CO2 at night indirectly via PEP carboxylase, not by rubisco.

All of the Following Are Characteristics of CAM Plants EXCEPT