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MATCHING. Choose the item in column 2 that best matches each item in column 1. 83) Nitrification 84) Ammonification A) Species such as Thiobacillus reduce nitrites and nitrates in the soil back into N₂ B) Species such as Azotobacter or Rhizobium in plant nodules biochemically change N₂ into NH4+ a soil salt and fertilizer 83) 84)
85) Assimilation 86) Nitrogen Fixing 87) Denitrification Oxidation of ammonium ion back into nitrite and nitrate; performed by Nitrospira and Nitrobacter Process by which plants take up nitrates or ammonium soil salts to make plant amino acids thus increasing nitrogen in the biomass process by which complex nitrogen containing substances are broken down by bacteria and fungi back into ammonium ion 85) 86) 87)