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re: Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:15 am to LSUDVM1999
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:15 am to LSUDVM1999
Do they still scrub co2?
Posted on 4/18/24 at 7:31 pm to MintBerry Crunch
They aren’t using the nitrogen for energy. They still use solar energy to convert co2 to sugar.
It’s just that nitrogen is a critical part of many biological compounds but only relatively few organisms can introduce it into a biological system.
What it means by “fixing” is being able to take elemental gaseous nitrogen and put it in something bio available. This happens in the soil by bacteria mostly (sometimes in symbiosis with specific plants). Plants use it, and things that eat plants take it up, and so on.
It’s just that nitrogen is a critical part of many biological compounds but only relatively few organisms can introduce it into a biological system.
What it means by “fixing” is being able to take elemental gaseous nitrogen and put it in something bio available. This happens in the soil by bacteria mostly (sometimes in symbiosis with specific plants). Plants use it, and things that eat plants take it up, and so on.
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