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Building an amino acid can be thought of as requiring two building blocks:

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Building an amino acid can be thought of as requiring two building blocks: a source of nitrogen, and a carbon skeleton. Yet atmostpheric nitrogen, N2, is essentially useless to most organisms. Summarize amino acid synthesis by answering the questions below.

a.   What is the name of the process that converts atmostpheric nitrogen to a biologically useful form?

Nitrogen Fixation

b.   What is one type of organism that is able to carry out this conversion?

c.    What is the name and chemical formula of the uncharged nitrogenous molecule that is produced?

d.   What happens spontaneously to that uncharged nitrogenous molecule?

e.   What enzyme catalyzes the addition of that nitrogen source onto a carbon skeleton?

f.    What is the name of the carbon skeleton that serves as a substrate for that enzyme?

g.   What is the name of amino acid that is produced?

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