What is the importance of nitrogen cycle?

Importance of nitrogen cycle:

• Nitrogen Cycle helps the plants in synthesising chlorophyll from the compounds of nitrogen.
• Nitrogen is abundant in the atmosphere, but it is unusable to plants or animals unless it is converted into nitrogen compounds.
• Nitrogen-fixing bacteria play a crucial role in fixing the atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen compounds that can be used by plants.
• The plants absorb the usable nitrogen compounds from the soil through their roots. Then, these nitrogen compounds are used for the production of proteins and other compounds in the cell.
• Animals assimilate nitrogen by consuming these plants or other animals that contain nitrogen. Humans consume proteins from these plants and animals and then, the nitrogen assimilates into our system.
• This cycle maintains the percentage of nitrogen in the atmosphere.

Further Reading:

• The Nitrogen Cycle
• Geography Notes