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B12 Is Also an Essential Vitamin for Marine Life
05-18-2007 · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)B12—an essential vitamin for land-dwelling
animals, including humans—also turns out to be an essential ingredient
for growing marine plants that are critical to the ocean food web and
Earth's climate, scientists have found.
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