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How is nitrogen converted into a form that can be used by animals?
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∙ 13y ago
Nitrogen in it's natural form is triple bonded and can not be used by plants or animals. There is a bacteria that can break these triple bonds and then the plant, which " pays ' for this service with sugar, takes up the nitrogen and uses it. Then animal come along and eat the plants and other animals eat the first animals and that way nitrogen is cycled through the animal kingdom.
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∙ 11y agoNitrogen is taken to the soil by several methods:
- Legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen in nodules on their roots
- Lightning combines atmosheric nitrogen with oxygen. The nitrate formed is taken to the soil by rain
- Animal protein decomposes to release nitrogen. Some is released as ammonia which may be removed from the air by rainfall.
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∙ 12y agoThey consume dead organic matter.
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∙ 8y agoAmino acids, proteins and DNA.
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What form of nitrogen is produced by bacteria - in certain plant root nodules?
These bacteria, through the plant, receive elemental nitrogen from the air, and use it to produce ammonia (NH3). This process is called nitrogen fixation. The ammonia can then be converted in to oxides of nitrogen and nitrogen salts, such as nitrites and nitrates, which are used by the host plant and others as nutrients.
What must happen for plants to use nitrogen in the atmosphere?
Fixation
What the processes involved in the nitrogen cycle?
plans take them both in and convert them both to a form we (and other animals) can use - sugars and proteins. decomposers are the type of bacteria that break dead things down - so convert the carbon in us to the CO2 form or into organic material in the soil and they also convert the nitrogen in living things into ammonium in the soil. the nitrogen fixing bacteria turn the nitrogen from the soil also into the ammonium. the ammonium is converted into nitrates by nitrifying bacteria which can be then used by plants and then we eat the plants...
What is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
Although the air is made up of about 70% nitrogen, plants cannot use nitrogen in this N2 form. Nitrogen fixing bacteria change nitrogen into the form of soluble nitrates so that plants can use it. Other bacteria, known as de-nitrifying bacteria, change nitrates back into N2, which completes the nitrogen cycle Updated by: Levi Levitt
Is it true although 78 percent of air is nitrogen plants cannot use this form well?
It is very close to it, being about 78.09%.
Can nitrogen in soil be used by plants or animals?
Nitrogen is everywhere But somehow, nitrogen has to get from the atmosphere into a form that our body can use.I also think that nitrogen in soil can be used by plants not animals
Bacteria in soil change this to a form that can used by plants is what?
Nitrogen gas (N2) is converted by nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in the root nodules of Legumes into NH3.
What must happen to nitrogen before plants and animal can use it?
Nitrogen must be in the compound form before it is used by plants or animals
Do animals take in nitrogen directly from the atmosphere?
Since 78.08% of the Earth's atmosphere is composed of nitrogen, yes. But it cannot be used in biological processes. The nitrogen animals use comes in the form of nitrogen compounds acquired from food. Ultimately, the nitrogen used by most living things is produced by nitrogen-fixing bacteria which do use nitrogen from the atmosphere, these compounds are then taken in and used by plants.
What type of organism is able to covert free nitrogen from the atmosphere to form that is usable for animals?
Nitrogen fixing bacteria will enable some plants to convert atmospheric oxygen to a form that can be used by plants. The plants are then eaten by animals.
What name is given to the process in which nitrogen is converted into compounds to be used by organisms?
it's nitrogen cycle........
Nitrogen in the soil is used by what?
nitrogen in the soil is used by both plants and animals.
What is atmospheric nitrogen fixationand how does it affect organisms?
The atmosphere is made up of 70% nitrogen. Nitrogen is also a key ingredient for proteins and nucleic acids such as DNA, and without these, no life could exist. However, the nitrogen in the atmosphere is unusable for most organisms. A few types of microorganisms are capable of fixing nitrogen into a bioavailable form, and that is the process of nitrogen fixation. The fixed nitrogen can then be used by plants to create amino acids, and the amino acids are then consumed by animals.
What form of nitrogen is produced by bacteria - in certain plant root nodules?
These bacteria, through the plant, receive elemental nitrogen from the air, and use it to produce ammonia (NH3). This process is called nitrogen fixation. The ammonia can then be converted in to oxides of nitrogen and nitrogen salts, such as nitrites and nitrates, which are used by the host plant and others as nutrients.
Which event breaks down the nitrogen in the atmosphere and converts it to a form that can be used by plants and animals?
Nitrogen fixation is how atmospheric nitrogen is processed. This occurs during lightning strikes but mainly is processed by diazotrophs, or free living bacteria with nitrogenase.
What changes nitrogen into a form that can be used by plants?
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria
What uses nitrogen in the soil?
it is used by plants and animals
