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Harun Yahya
Cyanobacteria’s moving mechanism involves have no whips, the mechanisms by which these
highly detailed and unique processes. organisms move is still not fully understood.
In the daytime, cyanobacteria remain close to the Complex proteins play a role in the slow, gliding
surface for photosynthesis, and at night they sink motion that enables the cells to change location,
to the bottom to gather nutrients. They use gas but the structure of the “engine” and how the
vacuoles (empty spaces) to do this and constantly chemical compounds work is still a mystery. No-
change their locations in the water. netheless this mechanism has remained unchan-
In contrast to other bacteria, cyanobacteria em- ged for billions of years, and has never altered.
ploy a slow glide in order to move; but since they
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