Question

Under certain conditions soil nutrients get tied up with the biomass of microbes and become temporarily unavailable to other organisms such incorporation of nutrients is called :

• A. Nutrient immobilization
• B. Acclimatisation
• C. Mineralisation
• D. Leaching
  

Answer 1

The correct option is A Nutrient immobilization

Immobilization is the process in which minerals are converted from the inorganic form to the organic form and hence called as the reverse process of mineralization.

It is done mostly by cell microbes and they incorporate the nutrients in the cell and make them unavailable to plants. Mineralization is a form of fossilization in which the organic parts of an organism are replaced by minerals while immobilization is the act or process of preventing a thing from moving.

Acclimatization or acclimatization is the process in which an individual organism adjusts to a change in its environment, allowing it to maintain performance across a range of environmental conditions.

Leaching is the loss or extraction of certain materials from a carrier into a liquid.

So, the correct answer is "option a".