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Harun Yahya

their internal structures properly. However, the
available data still describe the systems in these

life forms to us.
Bacteria are not primitive, as evolutionists li-
ke to claim. On the contrary, they possess com-
plex systems that prove that they could not have
b
come into being through a gradual process of
evolution. There are many species of bacteria in
nature, all with different characteristics.
Cyanobacteria represent the most complex

group of bacteria, which exhibit these different
features. However, this description is still far
from describing cyanobacteria’s characteristics a
c
and the wonderful functions they perform. Cya-
nobacteria possess very special cellular architec-
tures and complex intra-cellular communications
The pictures show three types of cyanobacteria.
systems.
(a: Nostoc, b: Oscillatoria, and c: Gleocapsa). These
Even 3.9 billion years ago, cyanobacteria we-
bacteria, which live in clean waters, have exceptio-
re marvelous and fully equipped life forms ca-
nally complex chlorophyll. By means of these systems,
pable of making photosynthesis, carrying out nit-
which are almost as complex as plant chloroplasts,
rogen fixation (nitrogen that cannot be used in a
cyanobacteria perform the process of photosynthesis
gaseous form assuming the form of usable com-
in nature. Nostoc cyanobacteria also play an impor-
pounds), capable of movement without the bac-
tant role in nitrogen transformation and the "fixing" of
terial whip (flagella) and using a string of prote-
atmospheric nitrogen.
ins in order to make such motion possible.

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