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Identify the sources of phosphorus in the phosphorus cycle?
Plants get phosphorus from soil and water, whereas animals get phosphorus by eating plants or other animals.
Where do animals get their phosphorus?
Animals are able to obtain phosphorus from plants that they may eat. It is also possible that animals that don't ingest plants can obtain phosphorus from the smaller animals that they may eat that do eat plants.
What kind of compounds are the most important minerals needed by plants?
Nitrogen and phosphorus are two.
How do animals take up phosphorus?
Animals assimilate phosphorus by the foods that they eat. Phosphorus is in plant cells and is transferred to animals through the plants they eat, in turn carnivores obtain phosphorus from their prey that eat plants.
What is a plants role in the Phosphorus cycle?
To plants, phosphorus is a vital nutrient (second only to nitrogen). Plants absorb phosphates through their root hairs. Phosphorus then passes on through the food chain when the plants are consumed by other organisms.
Would it be hard for plants to make DNA with a shortage of phosphorus in the soil?
Yes Phosphorus is essential in the production of DNA for plants.
What do animals get phosphorus from?
Eating plants.
Animals get phosphorus from?
Animals consume plants which have taken phosphorus out of the soil. They then excrete it in the form of manure and biosolids which returns it to the soil.
What is available from single super phosphate to plants?
Phosphorus is indispensable for plants.
What do plants use phosphate salts for?
Phosphorus is indispensable for the growth of plants.
How does phospHorus enter living plants?
Plants absorb phosphate from the soil.
How much phosphorus is in kefir?
how much phosphorus in kefir
