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What one of the following groups of organisms that is able to fix atmospheric nitrogen by living organisms?


A

Plants

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Fungi

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C

Insects

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D

Bacteria

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Solution

The correct option is D

Bacteria


The correct option is D

The explanation for the correct option:

  1. Nitrogen enters the living world through bacteria as well as other single-celled prokaryotes, which use nitrogen fixation to transform atmospheric nitrogen into physiologically useful forms.
  2. Some nitrogen-fixing bacteria were free-living in water or soil, whereas others dwell as beneficial symbionts inside plants.
  3. Anabaena is a cyanobacterium or blue-green algae.
  4. It can fix atmospheric nitrogen.

Final answer: Bacteria are groups of organisms that is able to fix atmospheric nitrogen by living organisms


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