Common thread connection: you go out to dinner with your best friend. during dinner you consume the following meal: spinach greens with sunflower seeds, a dt. peppertm, and a piece of buttered french bread identify the biological molecules that would likely be present and what they would be processed/digested into after they are consumed 1.

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explanation:

step 1: nitrogen fixation- conversion of atmospheric no₂ into forms useful to plants by lightning, bacteria, and cyanobacteria.

step 2: nitrification-process of converting ammonia to nitrite or nitrate.

step 3: assimilation-plant roots absorb new form of nitrogen.

step 4: ammonification-conversion of organic nitrogen to ammonia by bacteria involved in decomposition.

step 5: denitrification-bacteria turns the decomposed matter back into n₂o, which is released into atmosphere; repeat cycle.