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Earn 100

Trace the events starting from the coming in contact of Rhizobium to a leguminous root till nodule formation. Add a note on importance of leg haemoglobin.

Important Questions on Mineral Nutrition

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Assertion (A): Free-living bacteria such as Rhizobium and Frankia can help in the biological fixation of dinitrogen in the roots of angiospermous plants.

Reason (R): Prokaryotes exclusively contain nitrogenase enzyme which can catalyze the oxidation reaction of dinitrogen to glutamate.

The correct answer is:

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Rhizobium forms a symbiotic association with roots in legumes and fixes atmospheric nitrogen. Which of the following statement is correct about this process?

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The product(s) of reaction catalyzed by nitrogenase in root nodules of leguminous plants is/are:
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Microbes are useful to human beings in diverse ways. If so, name the following:

Symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium.

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Nitrogen-fixation is inhibited by oxygen. However, in aerobic nitrogen-fixing bacteria, nitrogen is fixed in the presence of oxygen. Nitrogenase in such organisms is protected by which one of the following mechanisms?
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During biological nitrogen fixation, inactivation of nitrogenase by oxygen poisoning is prevented by:
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The essential elements for the activation of nitrogen fixation in microorganisms are