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n. - The enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of the atmospheric gas for which it is named into ammonia

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  • Mycorrhiza-soil fertility effects on regrowth, nodulation, and nitrogenase activity of siratro (Macroptilium artropurpureum (DC) Urb.).
  • Time will tell whether these findings are relevant to how dinitrogen is reduced to ammonia in nature on a huge scale by nitrogenase enzymes.
  • In fact, this was in fact used in one of my favorite ID hypothesis, that the nitrogenase was used to terraform earth for the purpose of seeding life.
  • Only a very limited number of organisms that possess nitrogenase, the enzyme able to cleave N2 at ambient temperature and at normal pressure, can perform this conversion.
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