Plant Nutrition: Bacteria

Question 1

What are the bacteria that aid with plant growth?

Answer 1

Rhizobacteria

Question 2

Where are rhizobacteria located?

Answer 2

Rhizoshpere

Question 3

What does it mean to be endophytes?

Answer 3

Inside the plants

Question 4

What is the relationship between the rhizobacteria and plants?

Answer 4

Mutualistic (benefit both parties)

Question 5

What molecule do plants need to grow?

Answer 5

Nitrogen (N2)

Question 6

How much of the air and atmosphere is made up of nitrogen?

Answer 6

80%

Question 7

N2 is unavailable to plants because of the ________ bond between atoms of N2

Answer 7

Triple

Question 8

What do the bacteria do to the nitrogen? What does it mean to be this name?

Answer 8

Fixed- break down triple bond to usable parts

Question 9

What are the usable forms of nitrogen?

Answer 9

Ammonium and Nitrate

Question 10

Root nodules are found on?

Answer 10

Legumes (attached to roots)

Question 11

What is the name of the enzyme found in the bacterial that actually is the fixer of the nitrogen from N2 to NH3

Answer 11

Nitrogenous

Question 12

Where does the fixing of nitrogen take place?

Answer 12

Root nodules

Question 13

Bacteria use what for energy and to divide to form a nodule?

Answer 13

Products of photosynthesis by tapping into vascular tissue

Question 14

Plants obtains ______ nitrogen from Rhizoium

Answer 14

Fixed

Question 15

The Rhizobium obtains an _______ environment and _______.

Answer 15

Anaerobic

Food

Question 16

What is leghemoglobin?

Answer 16

Attach to oxygen and bounds it (provides oxygen to rhizobium)