Soil in a wheat field runs low in usable nitrogen. The bacterium that fixes it is:
ALactobacillus
BStreptococcus
CRhizobium
DPenicillium
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Rhizobium
1. Plants cannot use nitrogen gas straight from the air.
2. One bacterium converts that gas into a usable form.
3. That bacterium is Rhizobium.
_Source: syllabus Science Class VII, Chapter 1, Nutrition in Plants._
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