NEET 2010 Biology question

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An element playing important role in nitrogen fixation is

(1)Copper
(2)Manganese
(3)Zinc
(4)MolybdenumCorrect

Answer: (4)

Solution

Molybdenum is a component of the enzymes nitrogenase (needed by nitrogen-fixing microbes to reduce N2 to NH3) and nitrate reductase (reduction of nitrate to nitrite in plants). So molybdenum plays the important

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