what is the term used for bacteria which convert ammonia into nitrites and then i to nitrates? give one example of such bacteria.
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Nitrifying bacterium, plural Nitrifying Bacteria, any of a small group of aerobic bacteria (family Nitrobacteraceae) that use inorganic chemicals as an energy source. They are microorganisms that are important in the nitrogen cycle as converters of soil ammonia to nitrates, compounds usable by plants.
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Nitrifying Bacteria
catabolize ammonia to nitrite; and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB: Nitrobacter spp., Nitrococcus spp., Nitrospira spp., and Nitrospina spp.) transform nitrite into nitrate (Hagopian and Riley, 1998).
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