Start learning →

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._
Practise this question with Quill — Biology Olympiad →

Keep practising Nutrition in Plants

Browse all Nutrition in Plants questions for Biology Olympiad, or explore more Biology topics.

Start a Nutrition in Plants lesson →
Related questions