Prescott's Microbiology
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Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
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Chapter 43.3, Problem 2RIA
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Certain elements are defined as nutrients. This is because they are significant for the processes of life in aquatic organisms. The main nutrients include phosphorus, nitrogen, carbon, and silicon. Other nutrients which are essential potentially include sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sulphur. The micronutrients, those needed by the animals and plants in very fewer amounts might include cobalt, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, and copper. In aquatic systems, the nutrients are found in numerous form including dissolved organic, biotic, dissolved inorganic, and particulate organic forms.
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