Putrefying bacteria

Putrefying bacteria are bacteria involved in putrefaction of living matter. Along with other decomposers, they play a critical role in recycling nitrogen from dead organisms.[1]

Nitrogen cycle

Putrefying bacteria use amino acids or urea as an energy source to decompose dead organisms. In the process, they produce ammonium ions. Nitrifying bacteria then convert this ammonium into nitrate, which can then be used by plants to create more proteins thus completing the nitrogen cycle.[2]

gollark: GPTous entities have a tendency to say things which are linguistically sensible, but which don't really match human knowledge of what the real world is like, and to lack coherence over longer distances.
gollark: GPT-1 maybe, I never actually interacted with it.
gollark: I doubt it's any GPT, they tend to be better at *locally* being consistent.
gollark: Macron cannot be made.
gollark: Macron cannot be defined.

See also

References
  1. "4.10 Bacteria of the Nitrogen Cycle: Understanding for GCSE Biology". PMG Biology. 12 April 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  2. Fosbery, Richard; McLean, Jean (1996). Biology. ISBN 9780435580001.


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