required for protein synthesis and production of several nitrogenous compounds such as hormones, neurotransmitters, and components of antioxidant

defense.

78%

The role of nitrogen-fixing bacteria is to provide plants with nutrients that they cannot acquire from the air.

by eating plants or other animals that contain nitrogen.

Nitrogen from fertilizers sinks into soils, often creating conditions that favor the growth of weeds rather than native plants.

Plants get the nitrogen that they need from the soil, where it has already been fixed by bacteria and archaea.

by the activity of organisms known as decomposers. Denitrification is the microbial process of reducing nitrate and nitrite to gaseous forms of
nitrogen, principally nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitrogen (N2).