Nitrogen cycle

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    • Recycling of chemicals
      Constant process on the planet
    • Microorganisms such as bacteria
      • Play a key role in recycling chemicals
      • Break down complex organic molecules
      • Return elements to the environment to be reused
    • Elements

      Recycle between the living world and the non-living world
    • Elements that recycle
      • Carbon
      • Nitrogen
    • Nitrogen
      Very important element needed to make many biological compounds such as DNA, proteins, amino acids, and vitamins
    • 78% of the air is nitrogen
    • Nitrogen gas is unreactive and we cannot do anything with it
    • Bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle
      • Nitrogen fixing bacteria
      • Decomposing bacteria
      • Nitrifying bacteria
      • Denitrifying bacteria
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