B. What effect would the loss of nitrogen fixers have on the nitrogen cycle and the world? Justify your answer.

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Atmospheric nitrogen is abundant but plants cannot utilize it directly without fixing it and here what helps are nitrogen fixers which fix and supply nitrogen in the usable form to the plants. 

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