Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enzyme of nitrogen-fixing bacteria that catalyzes the conversion of nitrogen to ammonia.
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- noun The
enzyme , innitrogen -fixing bacteria , thatcatalyzes theconversion ofatmospheric nitrogen intoammonia .
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- noun an enzyme of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms that catalyzes the conversion of nitrogen to ammonia
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Examples
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Fortunately, natural selection has already devised the perfect solution: a bacterial enzyme known as nitrogenase, which can fix nitrogen at room temperature using only a collection of metal ions, including the unusual molybdenum ion, and a hefty dose of energy-giving ATP.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010
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Fortunately, natural selection has already devised the perfect solution: a bacterial enzyme known as nitrogenase, which can fix nitrogen at room temperature using only a collection of metal ions, including the unusual molybdenum ion, and a hefty dose of energy-giving ATP.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010
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Fortunately, natural selection has already devised the perfect solution: a bacterial enzyme known as nitrogenase, which can fix nitrogen at room temperature using only a collection of metal ions, including the unusual molybdenum ion, and a hefty dose of energy-giving ATP.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010
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Fortunately, natural selection has already devised the perfect solution: a bacterial enzyme known as nitrogenase, which can fix nitrogen at room temperature using only a collection of metal ions, including the unusual molybdenum ion, and a hefty dose of energy-giving ATP.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010
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Fortunately, natural selection has already devised the perfect solution: a bacterial enzyme known as nitrogenase, which can fix nitrogen at room temperature using only a collection of metal ions, including the unusual molybdenum ion, and a hefty dose of energy-giving ATP.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2010
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Fortunately, natural selection has already devised the perfect solution: a bacterial enzyme known as nitrogenase, which can fix nitrogen at room temperature using only a collection of metal ions, including the unusual molybdenum ion, and a hefty dose of energy-giving ATP.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM 2009
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Time will tell whether these findings are relevant to how dinitrogen is reduced to ammonia in nature on a huge scale by nitrogenase enzymes.
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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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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.
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Mycorrhiza-soil fertility effects on regrowth, nodulation, and nitrogenase activity of siratro (Macroptilium artropurpureum (DC) Urb.).
Chapter 8 1996
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