Identify the members of kingdom Monera that can assimilate carbon as well as fix nitrogen.
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a
All photosynthetic eubacteria.
b
Cyanobacteria.
c
All chemosynthetic bacteria.
d
Mycoplasmas.
answer is B.
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Cyanobacteria can assimilate carbon as well as nitrogen in their cells. Some have specialised cells for nitrogen fixation and they are called as heterocysts as in Nostoc and Anabaena. Oscillatoria is non-heterocystous cyanobacterium.