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What is the importance of the carbon and nitrogen cycles to ecosysyems

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Both cycles are important to organisms.

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All organisms need nitrogen to build proteins and DNA for new cells. The movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things if the nitrogen cycle. Besides water, the most common molecules in living things are organic molecules - which contain carbon. The exchange of carbon between the environment and living things is the carbon cycle.

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