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    Nitrogen Cycle: Agarrado, Prem Rose Miguel, Alexandra Mae Escuadro, Ivy May BS Pharmacy

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    The nitrogen cycle describes the processes by which nitrogen is converted between its various chemical forms and circulates between living and nonliving matter in the biosphere. It involves nitrogen fixation, nitrification, assimilation, ammonification, and denitrification. Nitrogen fixation converts atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, which plants and animals can use. Nitrification converts ammonia to nitrites and nitrates. Assimilation is when plants take up nitrates through their roots. Ammonification converts waste nitrogen back to ammonium. Denitrification returns nitrogen to the atmosphere. The cycle is essential for life but human activities like fertilizer use have altered its natural balance.

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    The nitrogen cycle describes the processes by which nitrogen is converted between its various chemical forms and circulates between living and nonliving matter in the biosphere. It involves nitrogen fixation, nitrification, assimilation, ammonification, and denitrification. Nitrogen fixation converts atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, which plants and animals can use. Nitrification converts ammonia to nitrites and nitrates. Assimilation is when plants take up nitrates through their roots. Ammonification converts waste nitrogen back to ammonium. Denitrification returns nitrogen to the atmosphere. The cycle is essential for life but human activities like fertilizer use have altered its natural balance.

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    The nitrogen cycle describes the processes by which nitrogen is converted between its various chemical forms and circulates between living and nonliving matter in the biosphere. It involves nitrogen fixation, nitrification, assimilation, ammonification, and denitrification. Nitrogen fixation converts atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, which plants and animals can use. Nitrification converts ammonia to nitrites and nitrates. Assimilation is when plants take up nitrates through their roots. Ammonification converts waste nitrogen back to ammonium. Denitrification returns nitrogen to the atmosphere. The cycle is essential for life but human activities like fertilizer use have altered its natural balance.

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    The nitrogen cycle describes the processes by which nitrogen is converted between its various chemical forms and circulates between living and nonliving matter in the biosphere. It involves nitrogen fixation, nitrification, assimilation, ammonification, and denitrification. Nitrogen fixation converts atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, which plants and animals can use. Nitrification converts ammonia to nitrites and nitrates. Assimilation is when plants take up nitrates through their roots. Ammonification converts waste nitrogen back to ammonium. Denitrification returns nitrogen to the atmosphere. The cycle is essential for life but human activities like fertilizer use have altered its natural balance.

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    NITROGEN CYCLE

    Agarrado, Prem Rose


    Miguel, Alexandra Mae
    Escuadro, Ivy May
    BS Pharmacy
    Around 78% of the atmosphere is nitrogen.
    However, this is mostly not usable by animals and
    plants.

    Nitrogen is used in fertilizer to help plants grow


    faster.

    Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas. Too much of it


    can also cause acid rain.
    Nitrogen has no color, odor, or taste.
    It is used in many explosives.

    About 3% of your body weight is


    nitrogen.
    Plants and animals could not live without
    nitrogen. It is an important part of many
    cells and processes such as amino acids,
    proteins, and even our DNA. It is also
    needed to make chlorophyll in plants,
    which plants use in photosynthesis to
    make their food and energy.
    Nitrogen the series of processes
    Cycle by which nitrogen and its
    compounds are
    interconverted in the
    environment and in living
    organisms, including
    nitrogen fixation and
    decomposition.
    Nitrogen exists in many different forms, including
    both inorganic (e.g., ammonia, nitrate) and organic
    (e.g., amino and nucleic acids) forms. Thus, nitrogen
    undergoes many different transformations in the
    ecosystem, changing from one form to another as
    organisms use it for growth and, in some cases,
    energy.
    The major transformations of
    nitrogen are nitrogen fixation,
    nitrification, denitrification,
    assimilation, and ammonification
    Nitrogen Fixation

    This is the first step of the nitrogen cycle. This


    step is characterised by the conversion of
    atmospheric N2 into ammonia (NH3).
    Nitrogen fixation can occur in any of the following
    ways: atmospheric fixation (involves lightening),
    industrial fixation(manufacturing ammonia under
    high temperature and pressure condition)
    Nitrification

    This is the process by which ammonium


    gets changed into nitrates by bacteria.
    Nitrates are what the plants can then
    absorb.
    Assimilation
    This is how plants get nitrogen. They absorb nitrates
    from the soil into their roots. Then the nitrogen gets
    used in amino acids, nucleic acids, and chlorophyll.
    Ammonification
    This is part of the decaying process. When a plant or
    animal dies, decomposers like fungi and bacteria turn
    the nitrogen back into ammonium so it can reenter the
    nitrogen cycle.
    Dentrification

    Extra nitrogen in the soil gets put back out


    into the air. There are special bacteria that
    perform this task as well.
    What is the importance of the
    nitrogen cycle?
    As we all know by now, the nitrogen cycle
    helps bring in the inert nitrogen from the air
    into the biochemical process in plants and
    then to animals.
    During the process of ammonification, the
    bacteria help degrade decomposing
    animal and plant matter. This helps in
    naturally cleaning up the environment.
    Plants need nitrogen to synthesise chlorophyll
    and so the nitrogen cycle is absolutely essential
    for them
    Due to the nitrogen cycle, nitrates and nitrites are
    released into the soil which helps in enriching the
    soil with nutrients needed for cultivation.
    As plants use nitrogen for their biochemical
    processes, animals obtain the nitrogen and
    nitrogen compounds from plants. Nitrogen
    is needed as is an integral part of the cell
    composition. It is due to the nitrogen cycle
    that animals are also able to utilise the
    nitrogen present in the air.
    How have humans altered the nitrogen cycle?

    Unfortunately, human activity has altered the


    cycle. We do this by adding nitrogen into the soil
    with fertilizer as well as other activities that put
    more nitrous oxide gas into the atmosphere.
    This adds in more nitrogen than is
    needed by normal cycle and upsets the
    cycle's balance.

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