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How do plants and animals obtain carbohydrates?

All animals obtain carbohydrates the same way we do, by eating plants: grain, roots and tubers, leaves, fruits, nuts.Except they don't turn them into bread and pie and french fries.


What animals drops the masks on Mabinogi?

The only way to obtain ANY sort of mask was via an event. No mask has ever been part of a normal drop. Atleast not in any NA or EU version of the game.


How do herbivores obtain the nitrogen they need?

Herbivores obtain nitrogen just like any other animal - through the air, which is mostly composed of nitrogen. However, organic nitrogen that can be used in proteins is only found in autotrophs. Through the nitrogen cycle, atmospheric nitrogen is fixed as organic nitrogen which is assimilated by plants. Herbivores, like omnivores and carnivores, get their nitrogen from food. The trick is getting the nitrogen "fixed" into the food in the first place. About 80% of earth's atmosphere is nitrogen, but atmospheric nitrogen is very nearly inert (the triple bond between the nitrogen atoms is difficult to break). It does not readily engage in chemical reactions, so plants and animals cannot get their nitrogen by breathing. Oxygen, on the other hand, reacts easily, so you'll find that you can get the oxygen you need directly from the atmosphere. Plants extract carbon directly from the atmosphere--from carbon dioxide and photosynthesis. That carbon, plus water and some other ingredients, produce the carbohydrates and other nutrients we get from plants. But like us, plants can't capture atmospheric nitrogen. They have to get the nitrogen they need for proteins & DNA from another source. So how does nitrogen get fixed into plants? Primarily via nitrogen compounds in the soil. There is a bit of nitrogen in any soil, thanks to decaying plants & animals and the activity of certain types of bacteria. But if you farm the soil intensively, you can quickly exhaust the naturally occurring nitrogen. One way to build up the nitrogen in soil is to exploit a symbiotic relationship between certain types of bacteria and a few types of plants. Bacteria that grow on the roots of some bean plants convert atmospheric nitrogen into compounds that stay in the soil. This is the phenomenon behind crop rotation with soy beans--you let the bacteria on the soy bean's root replenish the nitrogen in the soil. Then crops you grow in that soil pass that nitrogen through the food chain. For example, an herbivore might eat the crop directly, or a carnivore could eat the flesh of an herbivore that ate the crop that grew in the field that once grew soy beans that hosted nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Another way to get the nitrogen into the soil is via animal waste. Manure contains a good deal of fixed nitrogen. Hence the smell that bothers city folk when they visit farm country. Today, a good deal of the nitrogen in crops comes from manufactured fertilizer. The Haber-Bosch chemical process, developed about a hundred years ago, draws nitrogen from the air and fixes it in forms that can be used for fertilizer (or explosives.) About half of the nitrogen in your body came from the atmosphere via the Haber-Bosch process. (See "The Alchemy of Air" by Thomas Hager, 2008, for more on the history of Haber-Bosch.) Without Haber-Bosch, a couple billion of us humans would not be alive.


Why isn't animal testing illegal?

animal testing isn't illeagle becuase the only lic=ving things on this plannet is humans and animals and also bugs. but they cannot test it on bugs because were not related to bugs in any way. So animals are the only living thing too test things on.


How did early humans decide what animals to domesticate?

Early humans only killed animals to eat. When they killed all of the animals, they would have to move to other places. They would start making small community's and eventually, when their towns became too large, it became too difficult to move. They had to find an easier way to get around. When they trapped their horse like animals, they decided not to kill them. They tried to train the animals to help them carry their belongings. When this proved successful, they moved on to larger animals like elephants. Soon they started to domesticate animals left and right. First they domesticated only useful animals. Then they would make pets out of some of them.

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

if not from the atmosphere , they must depend on a process called nitrogen fixation. They get it from the soil. That's why farmers add fertilizer to the soil to increase nitrogen content


The way nitrogen moves between the air soil plants and animals is called the?

nitrogen cycle


How is nitrogen converted into a form that can be used by animals?

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.


Why can't animals use nitrogen in the air?

Because the nitrogen in the air is in a form not usable to animals and plants. The only way animals get nitrogen to build protein and nucleic acid is by eating it. This is usually through plants, which get there nitrogen from the soil. They get it from the soil cuz bacteria in the soil turn the atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form. In a water ecosystem cyanobacteria a.k.a. blue-green algae transform the nitrogen from the atmosphere into usable forms of nitrate


Where do animals get nitrogen from?

Animals get nitrogen from the proteins found in their food. When animals consume plants, they break down the proteins into amino acids, which are then used to build new proteins in their bodies. Nitrogen is an essential component of amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins in animals.


Why can't we use nitrogen the way we use oxygen?

Nitrogen is abundant in the air we breathe, but our bodies cannot use it directly for respiration. Oxygen is necessary for the process of generating cellular energy, while nitrogen does not play a direct role in this process. Our bodies can only obtain the nitrogen they need from nitrogen-containing compounds in food.


How animals other than mammals obtain their oxygen?

any animal that is on land at some point in its life obtain oxygen the same exact way we do. the only animal that obtains oxygen in a different way is the fish and it obtains its oxygen by filtering the water it swims through between its gills.


What is the nitrogen cycle and how does it work in a simple and easy-to-understand way?

The nitrogen cycle is the process by which nitrogen moves through the environment. Nitrogen gas in the air is converted into a form that plants can use by bacteria in the soil. Plants then take up this nitrogen to grow. When plants and animals die, bacteria break down their remains, releasing nitrogen back into the soil. This cycle continues as nitrogen is recycled between the air, soil, plants, and animals.


How is nitrogen cycle?

when nitrogen go from soil to back in atmosphere due to nitrogen fixing bacteria then it again return to soil due to lightning, dead animals, roots of plants and by other ways. and again go to atmosphere in this way nitrogen cycled.


How do you get Flaming Recon?

The only way to obtain a flaming helmet is to get a job at Bungie...There the only people who have it


What is the mew event?

It is an event where you can obtain MEW. MEW is a Pokemon that you can only obtain in an event, or hacking.


How does nitrogen enter the human body?

A lot of comes from the air. The air you breathe is around 78 percent nitrogen, so nitrogen enters your body with every breath. Rhizobium bacteria is present in leguminous plants in their roots which extract nitrogen from the soil. These are generally present in dicot-seed plants. When you consume these plants, nitrogen enters your body. Another way that nitrogen enters the body is through eating meat. When animals eat plants, those plants have nitrate in them which contains nitrogen so the animals have nitrogen in them now. Then, humans eat the meat from the animals, adding some nitrogen to our bodies.