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Even though considerable nitrogen is available in the air most plants do not use the nitrogen in the air why not?
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Because they don't want to.
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How do plants take nitrogen from the atmosphere?
Plants absorb nitrate compounds from soil through their root hairs, which are outgrowths of the trichoblast cells in the roots.Most plants are not able to use nitrogen as such (N2), though some, including legumes and casuarinas, supply water and food to symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in specialised root nodules, and these fix nitrogen to nitrate which they supply to the plants.
How does nitrogen go in your body?
Okay nitrogen is enter though the system of an animal cell
What is the common name for nitrogen hydride?
The formula for nitrogen trifluoride is NF3. Nitrogen trifluoride is usually referred to by its scientific name, though it is also sometimes called nitrogen fluoride, trifluoramine, and trifluorammonia.
Is no2 a free radical?
Though nitrogen dioxide has a single lone electron, it is not a radical, but a stable molecule.
How do herbivivor's obtain the nitrogen they need?
Herbivores, like all consumer organisms, obtain their component atoms from the food they ingest. They cannot obtain Nitrogen from air (even though the air is about 78% nitrogen). Nitrogen is a key atom in all proteins - as part of the "amine" group in the "amino-acid" that makes up the backbone of all protein chains. This amino acid usually remains intact once digested, to be used to create new proteins that the herbivore might need for its own purposes.
What form in which nitrogen is available to most plants?
That depends on what's meant by the word "available". In general, the nitrates are the quickest acting or most "available" to plants, however different species of plants can uptake different forms. Usually though, complex nitrogen compounds must be broken down to simpler compounds before plants can uptake them. Also, different formulations (of fertilizers) can change the way a plant uptakes nutrients. Usually, the quickest acting is a water soluble fertilizer (a powder that dissolves readily in water). Then, there are granular fertilizers that work a bit slower, and finally there are slow-release types that take weeks to months to release.
What living things make nitrogen compounds?
Nitrogen is found in plants and animals, though mainly plants as a way to more easily have photosynthesis occur. It is found in the blood of the organisms in which have nitrogen in their bodies.
Can animals use nitrogen directly from the atmosphere?
no plants and animals cannot use nitrogen straight out of the air every time we take a breath you breath it in but it goes through nitrogen fixation to let us humans animals and plants to use it.
How Is Nitrogen From The Atmosphere The Biotic Part Of The Ecosystem Converted In The Biotic Part Of The Ecosystem In Organism?
Conversion of Nitrogen gas into Nitrates\Ammonia.-When Lightning strikes the nitrogen in air get converted into Nitrogen Oxides and then is brought down by rain in from of Soluble Nitrates.These Nitrates are the soluble form of nitrogen for plants. Though lightning play a minor role in nitrogen fixation.-Nitrogen is also fixed by Microorganisms which are free-living or the organisms that live in the plants (Symbiotic relations).These Organisms convert the nitrogen in soluble nitrates.-Nitrogenous Fertilizers are also one from of Soluble nitrogen.*** These Nitrates and ammonia fertilizers are then consumed by plants and the plants are consumed by us.Hence Nitrogen is in the Biotic Part of the Ecosystem.
Plants need soil?
No, but they do need the nutrients commonly found in the soil, and nitrogen fixing soil bacteria are extremely beneficial, though not technically necesary, to plants.
Does plants take in nitrogen directly from air?
NO. Nitrogen is a required nutrient for plants but it is obtained from ammonia or nitrates used as fertilizers. Some plants can "fix" (convert nitrogen in the air to an usable form) with the assistance of microorganisms living at the roots.
What elements are most organisms unable to take from the atmosphere?
nitrogen
How does Nitrogen from the Atmosphere the Abiotic part of the ecosystem Converted in to the biotic part of the ecosystem In Organisms?
By lightening and by nitrogen fixing bacteria in the roots of certain plants (eg the legumes).
What is a source of nitrogen for carnivores or meat-eating animals?
plants even though they dont want to eat them they eat them anyway because they are in the dinos that they eat.
How do plants take nitrogen from the atmosphere?
Plants absorb nitrate compounds from soil through their root hairs, which are outgrowths of the trichoblast cells in the roots.Most plants are not able to use nitrogen as such (N2), though some, including legumes and casuarinas, supply water and food to symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in specialised root nodules, and these fix nitrogen to nitrate which they supply to the plants.
Why do plants grow better with coffee?
I've heard that the nitrogen and the caffeine help with plant growth. I do not know why they help though, I just know they do. :) Hope this helps!
Is nitrogen quickly noticed?
Nitrogen is invisible. It is not harmful though because 78% of the air we breathe is Nitrogen.
