Page 113 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

in dead bodies back into the soil and

atmosphere.
The nitrogen cycle is also of great im-
portance to the continuation of life. Plants
need nitrogen to synthesize amino acids and
proteins. Yet they cannot make direct use of the
gaseous nitrogen in the atmosphere, but absorb
it in the form of nitrates from the soil. This con-

version is the work of various micro-organisms.
Nitrite bacteria convert nitrogen into a form that
plants can use. Human beings and animals obtain
the nitrogen they need from plants, but single-celled
organisms are of essential importance in converting
nitrogen into forms that can be used by other living
things.
If there were insufficient nitrogen in the soil, then plants,
and thus human beings and animals that depend on them,

could not exist. And in nitrogen levels were any higher than
they are, then the poisonous gas nitric oxide NO—which
causes air pollution and acid rain and which damages the
ozone layer and the ecology—would accumulate in the at-
mosphere. Drinking water would become polluted, and
lakes, rivers and other freshwater ecosystems would be
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