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How do animals obtain the nitrogen they need to build compounds such as protiens?
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∙ 13y ago
from food. Mainly by cleaving proteins and nucleic acids from food.
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How do autotrophs obtain CO2 and N2 to make their food?
CO2 is absorbed via stomata while N2 is absorbed from soil in form of ammonia or nitrates etc. via root hairs .
What do root nodules help the plant obtain?
Root nodules contain nitrogen fixing bacteria which help a plant to obtain nitrogen compounds, which are needed for the production of protein (and although plants do not contain as much protein as animals do, they still need a certain amount of it).
How does nitrogen get from organisms back into the atmosphere?
Nitrogen used by plants and animals is returned to the atmosphere by the action of bacteria. Bacteria break down proteins to obtain energy, releasing nitrogen back into the air in the process.
How do heterotrophic bacteria obtain energy?
Obtain energy by breaking down organic molecules. Heterotrophs are unable to synthesize organic carbon-based compounds independently from the inorganic environment's sources (e.g. Animalia, unlike Plantae, cannot photosynthesize) and therefore must obtain their nutrition from another heterotroph or an autotroph.
In what form most organisms obtain nitrogen?
from amino acids
Why do animals not obtain nitrogen from the air?
Nitrogen gas is fairly inert and so is difficult for organisms to process. Instead, animals must get usable nitrogen compounds from their food.
How do plants and animals differ in the ways they obtain nitrogen?
Plants get it from bacteria which live associated with their roots who take atmospheric nitrogen and fixate it (nitrogen cycle). Animals can only get it by ingesting organic compounds which contain nitrogen, such as plants and other animals which have eaten plants.
How do animal obtain nitrogen?
Animals obtain nitrogen by eating plants which have absorbed nitrogen from the soil.
How many electrons can nitrogen borrow?
When forming compounds, nitrogen can obtain up to three electrons from other atoms.
How do animals obtain the nitrogen they need?
mostly from food.
What do carnivorous plants obtain from animals bodies?
Nitrogen
How do animals obtain their nitrogen requirements?
Nitrogen is found in all living systems as part of the makeup of biological compounds. Animals obtain the nitrogen they need by eating plants, or by eating other animals that have eaten plants.
What is the only way that animals can obtain nitrogen?
eating the plants
What are two ways that nitrogen is fixed so plants can use it?
The only forms of nitrogen compounds that living things can make use of are ammonia compounds and nitrate compounds.These are called "fixed nitrogen". Animals obtain the nitrogen they need from proteins in the plants and/or animals they eat. Proteins are amino acid polymers and amino acids are built around an ammonia group.
How do animals obtain the nitrogen they use to make proteins and nucleic acids?
by consuming plants or other animals
What do plants obtain from animals?
Plants can obtain a variety of things from animals. The main things are CO2 from the exhaust of mammals, and the minerals/nutrients from animals' waste. Nitrogen from chicken waste is a very good example.
How do autotrophs obtain CO2 and N2 to make their food?
CO2 is absorbed via stomata while N2 is absorbed from soil in form of ammonia or nitrates etc. via root hairs .
