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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V4 #224
In a message dated 4/17/00 4:09:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com writes:
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Photosynthesis does not consume nitrogen.
Roger Miller
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Stephen Spotte in his book "Sea Water Aquariums' states that all plants use
nitrogen in some form, Higher plants are more likely to use nitrates algae
tend to use ammonia although some can use the nitrogen in urea. Nitrogen is
assimilated during phtosysnthisis to make the amino acids inside cells.
Plants by way of photosynthesis assimilate nitrogen and phosphorus compounds
and incorporate them into their own tissues during growth. All living things
require nitrogen and phosphorus. Animals get theirs by eating plants or other
animals, Plants get theirs by assimilating those compounds from their
environment and using them by way of photo synthesis to make new body
tissues.
Photosynthesis and in some cases chemosynthesis is what supplies plants
with food, animals use that food, which is made up of plant tissue, with is
made up on a smaller level of, among other things, nitrogen. Plants make
their tissue by photosynthisis, I don't know how to be more basic than that.
Moon