What is nitrate assimilation? NITRATE assimilation is one of the two major biological processes by which inorganic nitrogen is converted to ammonia and thence to organic nitrogen. Thus, the control of nitrate assimilation can be important from the standpoint of both agricultural productivity and water resource management. Can animals assimilate nitrate? Plants absorb ammonium and nitrate during the assimilation process, after which they are converted into nitrogen-containing organic molecules, such as amino acids and DNA. Animals cannot absorb nitrates directly. Where does nitrate assimilation take place? the chloroplast Nitrate assimilation is an apparently simple process in photosynthetic eukaryotes. The process...

Is blood pheasant endangered? The blood pheasant is "endangered" in India's list of wildlife. Blood pheasants (Ithaginis Cruentus) had not been sighted for a few years in 1974. Ornithologists did not imply that the blood pheasant was extinct. It had become a matter of concern that the blood pheasant was not being observed in it's natural habitat. What do blood pheasants eat? The diet of blood pheasants consist of plants (including leaf, seed and flower), moss (especially in winter), and small insects (summer) (Li, 1981, Li, 1985; Yao, 1989). Such diet composition is susceptible to understory vegetation alteration due to...