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Why are only prokaryotes known to carry out biological nitrogen fixation?
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It seems that nitrogen fixation was invented just once in 4 billion years. No new ways to do it have been found by prokaryotes or eukaryotes since then.
It may not be possible to re-invent it in the presence of oxygen.
Posted by: stan zahler | April 22, 2007 at 09:56 PM