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Plants repeatedly got rid of their ability to obtain their own nitrogen

In Summary : Plants, like all living things, need nitrogen to build amino acids and other essential biomolecules. Although nitrogen is th...

In Summary :

Plants, like all living things, need nitrogen to build amino acids and other essential biomolecules. Although nitrogen is the most abundant element in air, the molecular form of nitrogen found there is largely unreactive. To become useful to plants, that nitrogen must first be "fixed," or busted out of its molecular form and linked with hydrogen to make ammonia. The plants can then get at it by catalyzing reactions with ammonia. But plants can't fix nitrogen. Bacteria can. [...]

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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1313973

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