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Nearly all of the nitrogen in a diet is present as amino acids in proteins. The average nitrogen content of proteins was found to be around 16 percent.
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What kind of nitrogen do plants need?
Bacteria and plant roots perform nitrogen fixation, which allows plants to use the nitrogen. Nitrogen is used in cells to build proteins and DNA. However, plants get their nitrogen as "nutrients" in the soil.
Why did the percentage of nitrogen slowly increase when the earth was forming?
Due to volcanoes
The atmosphere is composed of?
Nitrogen,Oxygen,Carbon Dioxide And The rest of the percentage is other gases
What two gasesmake up most of earths atmosphere?
Nitrogen and Oxygen
The nitrogen utilized by most plants is derived from the atmosphere?
soil page 566.
When you eat an apple are you eating a nitrogen?
Apples contain a small percentage of proteins.
Carbon oxygen hydrogen and nitrogen are in most of these?
proteins
What chemical element is present in proteins and nucleic acids but not sugars and fats?
Phosphorus complexes are present in proteins but is not present in sugars or fats..
How do people use nitrogen every day?
By eating proteins as proteins have nitrogen in it
Role that nitrogen plays as essential to the production of proteins?
Nitrogen is a key element. Proteins contain nitrogen and without nitrogen no protein.
Which element makes proteins different from carbohydrates and fat?
Most likely Nitrogen
Which parts of the human body that contain nitrogen?
Most of the nitrogen in your body is contained within proteins and most of the protein in your body is contained within the muscles.
What element is present in protein that was not present in carbohydrates?
Proteins contain nitrogen, which is not present in carbohydrates.
Is nitrogen found in carbohydrates or lipids or proteins?
In proteins.
What are the four most common elements found in proteins?
Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen
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.
Why plant needs nitrogen?
Plants need nitrogen to build proteins and nucleic acids.
