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Plants and animals depend on nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Plants and animals cannot use nitrogen gas directly. The nitrogen must be changed in to ammonia first. These nitrogen-fixing bacteria take nitrogen and convert it to ammonia for plant and animals to use.

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How do plants and animals get nitrogen if not from the atmosphere?

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Can animals use nitrogen directly from the atmosphere?

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How do plants get nitrogen compared to how animals get nitrogen?

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What is the source of nitrogen for animals?

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Could animals suurvive without sun?

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What are two functions of plants and animals in the nitrogen?

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What plants depend on animals?

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Do animals that eat other animals depend on plants?

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How do plants and animals differ in the ways they obtain nitrogen?

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Many animals depend on plants for?

Many animals depend on plants. Most animals just eat them, but some animals will you plants as shelter, to hide from predators, and many other reasons.


How do other animal the nitrogen they need?

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