Statement is incorrect because heterocysts are specialized cells used for nitrogen fixation, not carbon dioxide fixation. While cyanobacteria are indeed photosynthetic autotrophs that fix carbon dioxide, they do so through the Calvin cycle in their vegetative cells, whereas heterocysts provide the anaerobic environment necessary for the oxygen-sensitive enzyme nitrogenase to convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia.

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