Microbiology of Soils
The groups of symbiotic bacteria, which have the ability to fix nitrogen

derive their food and minerals from the legume, and in turn they supply the legume with some or all of its nitrogen
All of these
grow together for a mutual benefit is called symbiosis and so these bacteria are called symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria
these bacteria are from the genus, Rhizobium

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Microbiology of Soils
Denitrification is

reduction of nitrate to organic nitrogen compounds
reduction of nitrate (NO3-) to nitrogen gas
changing of atmospheric nitrogen (N2) to nitrogen compounds
both (a) and (b)

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Microbiology of Soils
A heterocyst is

a terminally differentiated cell that fixes nitrogen
the progenitor of cyanobacterial vegetative cells
a type of spore
a cell that carries out oxygenic photosynthesis

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