Nitrogen & Phosphorus Cycles: Always Recycle! Part 2 - Crash Course Ecology #9
Hank describes the desperate need many organisms have for nutrients (specifically nitrogen and phosphorus) and how they go about getting them via the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. Like...
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There's nothing quite so terrible as needing something that's sitting right in front of you but not being able to get it. Like say you're on a lifeboat in the ocean and you're super thirsty, and there's 300,000,000 cubic miles of water sitting right in front of you, but you can't drink any of it. Or having to sit next to Megan Kale every day in math class, but knowing she's really dramatically out of your league. A lot of organisms on earth find themselves in this situation, pretty much constantly, except that the thing that's everywhere that they can't have isn't water or physical closeness; it's nutrients, specifically, nitrogen and phosphorus. Of course, there are tons of elements that cycle around the earth hangin...
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There's nothing quite so terrible as needing something that's sitting right in front of you but not being able to get it. Like say you're on a lifeboat in the ocean and you're super thirsty, and there's 300,000,000 cubic miles of water sitting right in front of you, but you can't drink any of it. Or having to sit next to Megan Kale every day in math class, but knowing she's really dramatically out of your league. A lot of organisms on earth find themselves in this situation, pretty much constantly, except that the thing that's everywhere that they can't have isn't water or physical closeness; it's nutrients, specifically, nitrogen and phosphorus. Of course, there are tons of elements that cycle around the earth hangin...
