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The animals obtain nitrogen through their foods in various forms to build proteins they need for their bodies. Protein synthesis is a continuous process in the plant and animal cells from some 20 odd types of amino acids, thousands of types of proteins are synthesized by the ribosomes in each organism.
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Why is nitrogen needed by plants and animals?
Nitrogen is an essential element of amino acids. Amino acids are basic material for protein synthesis.Thus for synthesis of protein by both, plants and animals, need nitrogen.
How does nitrogen become part of proteins in living things?
Nitrogen is present in amino acids which form proteins. All plants and animals need nitrogen for growth.
Why plant needs nitrogen?
Plants need nitrogen to build proteins and nucleic acids.
How do nitrogen and oxygen help make life possible?
Animals need oxygen to breathe, and together with hydrogen, it makes water. Nitrogen is used by plants, and is one of the building blocks for proteins.
Can humans get the nitrogen they need to exist in the air?
Plants and animals die and decomposers break down their nitrogen containing molecules to ammonia. All animals get the nitrogen they need by eating plants, by eating other animals that ate plants, or by eating animals that ate animals that ate plants.
What can you infer from the fact that animals do not need nitrogen?
If you are told it is a fact that animals do not need nitrogen, you can infer that you are receiving incorrect information. All living things require nitrogen. However, animals are not able to obtain the nitrogen they need directly, but must get it from their food, and that comes ultimately from the plants that are able to absorb nitrogen from the soil.
Why do animals need nitrigen to live?
Animals and plants need nitrogen to live because proteins and other biological compounds contain nitrogen. In plants, nitrogen compounds perform photosynthesis. In humans, nitrogen is the basis for amino acids, the building blocks of genetic material.
How do animals obtain the nitrogen they need to build compounds such as protiens?
from food. Mainly by cleaving proteins and nucleic acids from food.
What does a plant use nitrogen for?
At www.fernlea.com, it says "This nutrient is responsible for the healthy green color of your plants. It is an essential part of proteins and chlorophyll, the plant pigment that plays a vital role in photosynthesis. Nitrogen deficiencies result in a yellowing of leaves, and a general slow down in growth."
Nitrogen is used by living organisms to produce?
Nitrogen is consumed by different organisms in different ways. Legumes (a type of plant) are able to take nitrogen straight out of the atmosphere (which is roughly 78% nitrogen gas). Animals aren't able to do this so they must obtain their nitrogen by eating substances such as vegetables and meat. We break down proteins (largely from meat) down to their constituents which are amino acids. This is how we obtain our source of nitrogen (amino acids contain nitrogen atoms). We then use these amino acids to build proteins that we need in our body such as tissue, enzymes, antibodies and more.
Do we need nitrogen?
Proteins are mostly made of nitrogen. Almost everything in your body is made of proteins so we would die without nitrogen.
Organisms need nitrogen to build what?
proteins
