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When plants such as watermelon absorb water do they also absorb bacteria or other contaminates?
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∙ 16y ago
No. If a plant is growing in contaminated soil or is watered with contaminated water, the contaminants can persist on the flesh of the fruit, so its important to wash it thoroughly and peel it before eating the fruit.
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∙ 16y ago
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoIt depends upon the contaminant and its solubility. Bacteria or other contaminants can spread directly from the water to the melon. Some plants will take in substances through their roots and deposit it in the plant system. However, contaminants that would injure someone eating it would normally kill the plant first.
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What contaminates swimming pools?
Urine Debris from trees, the ground, and plants Mold Bacteria
What do bacteria do in nitrogen fixation?
Bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen into a nitrogen-containing ion that plants can absorb.
What can convert nitrogen in the air into a form plants can use?
Nitrogen fixing bacteria along and on the roots of plants converts gaseous nitrogen into a form that plants can absorb.
Plants need bacteria in order to take up and use which element?
Nitrogen. Bacteria can convert or "fix" insoluable Nitrites into soluable Nitrates, which plants can absorb
Why do plants depend on bacteria?
Bacteria change the consistency of the soil. That is they normally change the form in which nitrogen exists in the soil. This make it possible for plants to absorb all the right nutrients
How do plants get the nitrogen they need to grow?
They absorb nitrogen through their roots.
When animals excrete nitrogenous waste in the soil's certain soil bacteria convert these wastes into nitrate's which are absorb by plants these bacteria function as?
decomposers
What element must be fixed by bacteria in the soil in order for plants to absorb it?
Nitrogen is the most common one.
Can only plants absorb minerals from rock and soil?
No, bacteria like femalia menstrato tamponia can also
How are watermelon made?
Watermelon plants are easily grown from seed.
How does nitrogen get out of soil?
From lightening and nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the roots of certain plants.
What is the function of watermelon root?
Like all other plants' root the function of watermelon root is absorption and anchorage. Watermelon plants have week stem hence these are creepers on the ground.
