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Cynobacteria and some other photosynthesis bacteria don't have chloroplasts. How do they conduct photosynthesis ?

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The cyanobacteria and photosynthetic bacteria are prokaryotes. They do not have well defined membrane bound cell organelles, but these organism have photosynthetic pigments in a membranous form, which are primitive in nature but can trap and used solar energy. So, they can carry out photosynthesis.
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