Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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All living organisms (plants and animals) require nitrogen. Nitrogen is a chemical element used to generate proteins. Ammonia is a type of nitrogen present in soil and it enters the soil in this organic form from dead and decaying animals and plants waste. Plants unable to absorbs the organic form of nitrogen. Hence, the organic form of nitrogen must be converted into inorganic form, through a process called nitrification.
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