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    Basic Facts About Nitrogen and The Steps in The Nitrogen Cycles

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    Nitrogen is essential for life but most organisms cannot use nitrogen gas (N2) directly. Through nitrogen fixation, bacteria are able to convert nitrogen gas into ammonium ions using the nitrogenase enzyme. This process occurs through lightning, free-living soil bacteria, and symbiotic bacteria that live in root nodules of legumes. The ammonium is then converted to nitrates through nitrification by other bacteria, and plants take up these nitrates through their roots through assimilation to produce proteins and other nitrogenous compounds essential for life.

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    Nitrogen is essential for life but most organisms cannot use nitrogen gas (N2) directly. Through nitrogen fixation, bacteria are able to convert nitrogen gas into ammonium ions using the nitrogenase enzyme. This process occurs through lightning, free-living soil bacteria, and symbiotic bacteria that live in root nodules of legumes. The ammonium is then converted to nitrates through nitrification by other bacteria, and plants take up these nitrates through their roots through assimilation to produce proteins and other nitrogenous compounds essential for life.

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    Nitrogen is essential for life but most organisms cannot use nitrogen gas (N2) directly. Through nitrogen fixation, bacteria are able to convert nitrogen gas into ammonium ions using the nitrogenase enzyme. This process occurs through lightning, free-living soil bacteria, and symbiotic bacteria that live in root nodules of legumes. The ammonium is then converted to nitrates through nitrification by other bacteria, and plants take up these nitrates through their roots through assimilation to produce proteins and other nitrogenous compounds essential for life.

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    LECTURE NOTES:

    *BASIC FACTS ABOUT NITROGEN

     Nitrogen atoms are the essential components of all the proteins in your body. The bases
    in DNA and RNA also contain nitrogen.
     Our atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen.
     Nitrogen must first be converted into other compounds because the plants, animals, and
    most organisms cannot use the free nitrogen gas (N2)
     Nitrogen is essential for many biological processes; it is in all amino acids, is
    incorporated into proteins, and is present in the bases that make up nucleic acids, such as
    DNA and RNA.
     In plants, much of the nitrogen is used in chlorophyll molecules which are essential for
    photosynthesis and further growth.
     Processing, or fixation, is necessary to convert gaseous nitrogen into forms usable by
    living organisms.
     Some fixation occurs in lightning strikes, but most fixation is done by free-living or
    symbiotic bacteria.
     These bacteria have the nitrogenase enzyme that combines gaseous nitrogen with
    hydrogen to produce ammonia.
    The Steps In The Nitrogen Cycle

    *Nitrogen Fixation

    - Nitrogen fixing, bacteria in the soil and root nodules of legumes like peanut, peas, and beans
    convert nitrogen gas (N2) into ammonium ions (NH 4+). Rhizobium bacteria live symbiotically in
    the root nodules of legumes (such as peas, beans, and peanuts) and provide them with the organic
    nitrogen they need. The ammonium ions are released to roots of the bacteria’s host and soil.
    Some plants can use ammonium ions directly to make organic compounds.

    Lightning breaks nitrogen molecules (N2) apart and combines them with oxygen (O2) to form
    nitrogen oxides (N2O) or with hydrogen (H) to form ammonia (NH3). Nitrogen oxides dissolve in
    rain forming nitrates (NO3). Nitrates are carried to the ground with the rain.

    *Nitrification

    -Most atmospheric nitrogen is “fixed” (made useable) and changed to ammonia (NH 3) by
    bacteria in the soil and attached to the roots of legumes (peas, beans, peanuts and soybeans). A
    few plants can use ammonia but most cannot. Through the process of nitrification, this problem
    is solved. Nitrifying bacteria change the ammonia in the soil to nitrites and then into nitrates. The
    nitrates are dissolved in water and absorbed through the roots of plants.

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    *Assimilation

    -Assimilation in the process whereby plants absorb the nitrates and/or ammonium from the soil
    and use them to make proteins.
    *Ammonification

    -Decomposers (fungi and bacteria) convert the remains of dead plants and animals to
    ammonia plus other substances.

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