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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Biological compounds that contain Nitrogen :}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{proteins} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{vitamins} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{DNA} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{RNA} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{ATP} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{chlorophyll} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{amino acids} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.24425 cm} x{3.73275 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{What happens after nitrogen fixation}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Assimilation} & into plants as proteins \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & into bacteria as proteins \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & into animals after feeding on plants \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Nitrification by nitrifying bacteria to make nitrite and nitrate ions} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Nitrates will be assimilated into plants as proteins after being absorbed in the soil by {\bf{active transport}} through root hair cells} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{nitrates might be denitrified by denitrifying bacteria} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{decomposition}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Animals , plants and bacteria excrete nitrogenous waste} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Decomposers digest by extracelluar enzymatic digestion the nitrogenous waste products and dead remains into ammonia} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Free in soil & in root nodules \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} convert nitrogen gas into ammonia that is used by bacteria to make amino acids and proteins & found in leguminous plants e.g. peas , clovers \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} When bacteria die , their proteins decompose and they release NH3 in the soil & convert N2 to NH3 to be used to make amino acids, proteins and other compounds \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & when leguminous plants die , nitrogen containing compounds decompose releasing ammonia back \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 5) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{2. Nitrification}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{nitrifying bacteria in the soil oxidise ammonia from nitrogen fixation to nitrite and then to nitrate ions} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Nitrate ions can be absorbed through active transport by plants to make amino acids and then proteins} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{nitrate ions can be converted back to nitrogen by denitrifying bacteria} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Lightning}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{oxidization of nitrogen that produces nitrogen oxides} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{nitrogen oxides dissolve in rain water and enter the soil} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{converted into nitrates by nitrifying bacteria} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Haber Bosch process}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{artificial nitrogen fixation} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{nitrogen +hydrogen -{}-\textgreater{} ammonia} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{ammonia used to make fertiliser} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Denitrification}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{denitrifying bacteria in the soil convert nitrate ions back to nitrogen} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Feeding and assimilation}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Feeding & Assimilation \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} animals feed on plants or on other animals that have fed on plants & plants absorb nitrate ions by AT in the soil \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} they digest animal or plant protein & make amino acids \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} assimilate the proteins in their body & make proteins in the plant \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & also used to make chlorophyll, DNA \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}