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Dear expert,
How do bacterial cells do their day to day activities like production of food, and other activities without having any organelle such as endoplasmic reticulum, golgi bodies, vacuoles etc.?

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Autotrophic bacteria make their own food, either by photosynthesis (which uses sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to make food) 3or by chemosynthesis (which uses carbon dioxide, water and chemicals like ammonia to make food - these bacteria are called nitrogen fixers and include the bacteria found living in legume roots.

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