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How Azotobacter's fixed nitrogen is used by plants and animals as it is a free living microbe ?

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(A) Nitrobacter	(i) Free living aerobic nitrogen fixing organism
(B) Clostridium	(ii) Converts nitrite to nitrates
(C) Nitrosococcus	(iii) Converts ammonia to nitrite
(D) Azotobacter	(iv) Free living anaerobic nitrogen fixing organism

Rhizobium lives as an aerobic microbe under free living conditions but gets adapted to anaerobic conditions during nitrogen fixation.

	I		II
(a)	Free-living aerobic nitrogen fixers	1.	Anabaena and Nostoc
(b)	Anaerobic nitrogen fixers	2.	Pseudomonas and Thiobacillus
(c)	Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria	3.	Nitrosomonas and Nitrosococcus
(d)	Denitrifying bacteria	4.	Azotobacter and Beijerinckia
(e)	Nitrifying bacteria	5.	Rhodospirillum

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