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But guess what?

This enzyme, this whole biological system hates oxygen.

All right, what do I do now?

There's all this oxygen in the environment and I don't like oxygen, so how do I survive?

It finds ways, we don't know exactly how and what, to protect itself from the dangers of nitrogen.

protected nitrogen fixation system.

Oh, that is way... That's way down the line.

Yeah, way down.

Like there's another like two billion years until we get there.

Yeah, there's another billion-year foliar karyotes.

There's another, if some biologists are listening to me, they may be like, how about all the heterocysts and all the systems that protect nitrogen organelles that blah, blah, blah.

They were also later, all right?

So we want to understand how nitrogen fixation survived oxidation.

How did such dangerous thing

managed to not kill this biological system.

In this particular case, it is a nitrogen-fixing enzyme.

We did this for carbon, we did this for informatics, for genetic, more replication system as well.

But in this particular case, it is a nitrogen system.

So going back to your original question, if this is so costly and we need all these fertilizers, what we are trying to do is not to reinvent a new agriculture, but maybe decrease our dependence on this energetically, globally very demanding productions.

We need better biological solutions.