Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium
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Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium
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Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA), also known as nitrate/nitrite ammonification, is the result of anaerobic respiration by chemoorganoheterotrophic microbes using nitrate (NO3−) as an electron acceptor for respiration. In anaerobic conditions microbes which undertake DNRA oxidise organic matter and use nitrate (rather than oxygen) as an electron acceptor, reducing it to nitrite, and then to ammonium (NO3− → NO2− → NH4+). Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium is more common
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Anaerobic respiration process by microbes
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2024-03-05T23:19:14Z
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