Cycling of the nutrients

Cycling of the nutrients

Introduction

Cycling is the reprocessing of the end product to be a new product. Its main concern is the addition of value on the already waste product to be substantial products. Cycling is a continuous process that fully does not stop because it entails a concept of taking something that is not useful and process them and become new to function. Its purpose is a good and better way. The cycling process entails the ecological, biomedical, physiological and nutrient cycles (Adrien 2089). Cycling is also the processing of organic and inorganic matter back in the production of the same product. There exist the mineral cycles like Sulphur cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, water cycle and phosphorus cycle. In this cycling process, the nutrients being consumed by the living and non-living organisms are released back to the environment, and the process repeats itself (Marjorie and Davison 67). The cycling process is continuous, and it occurs in every time since the key stakeholders of this process are the living and non-living organisms. They consume and the releases, and that is their nature. Therefore, there is no single day that the process has ever or will ever stop since it is an embraces activity that occurs in day to day life. The cycling process is crucial and essential in the maintenance of living organisms and their environment.

Importance

Cycling of the nutrients reduces the risks of leakage of nutrients that are important in food production and also prevent the emission of exotic gases in the environment that may lead to the death of aquatic animals and hazardous climatic change. For example, in case of nutrient cycling, several elements are recycled; carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus and nitrogen to enhance the survival if living organisms. Example, in the case of the carbon cycle, carbon is an essential element of a living organism. More so, it is an exotic element that can influence the global climate when circulated in the economy. The living and non-living organisms enhance the circulation nutrients through the process of respiration and photosynthesis.

Ecological –carbon cycle

In the carbon cycle, the photosynthetic organisms remove the carbon iv oxide in the atmosphere that is used to generate organic molecules and built biological mass (Kirkby and Engels 270). The carbon is then acquired by living organisms that consume the photosynthetic organisms. Through respiration of living organisms, carbon iv oxide is returned to the atmosphere. Also, the decomposers break down the dead and decaying organic matter and release carbon iv oxide. Even the burning of organic matter leads to emission of carbon iv oxide in the atmosphere. Plant absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it, combined with water, it gets from the soil for the growth of plants.

Physiological-The cell cycle

Decampaction of DNA, RNA and protein synthesis and lipid synthesis, occurs due to resting cells committed to proliferate. An increase of glycolytic metabolism characterizes lipid synthesis. Acidification occurs due to lactic and synthesis followed by cytosolic alkalinization. During the progress of the cell cycle, the pentose phosphate pathway is activated by increasing NADPH ratio resulting in glucose 6-phosphate to nucleotide precursors. Mitochondria hyper fusion matches the cytosolic acidification and then trigger ATP synthesis by oxidative phosphorylation.

Biochemical-synthesis of ATP from ADP

ATP helps in muscle contraction. The cell metabolism aspect revolves around ATP production and consumption. It is seen as an energy exchange factor that connects anabolism and catabolism but also fuels motile contraction and active transport. When ATP is hydrolyzed, phosphate Pi is lost, and ADP is formed. This process releases energy, and it is reversible. The chemical reaction releases the energy too. ATP functions as an intermediate between respiration and energy-requiring processes with phosphates being continuously removed and replaced. It is produced by organelles found in the cell. There are three systems used to stimulate energy systems to enhance muscular cell with ATP. They include the lactic and aerobic systems.

Reproduction and growth of organisms are also influenced by the cycling of elements in the atmosphere. The biogeochemical cycles enhance the cycling of elements that are essential in the reproduction and growth of organisms. The element includes oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus, Sulphur and carbon. The efficient completion of a biogeochemical cycle, with no disruption, will not interfere with climatic change; hence the elements will be cycled leading to the survival of living organism leading to growth and reproduction among them. For example, in the Nitrogen cycle, the disruption of the process can affect the ecosystem process that influences the production and decomposition. Nitrogen enters the living world as a bacteria living in the soil and some in the plants. The nitrogen-fixing microorganisms acquire the atmospheric nitrogen then it converts it into ammonia then taken by the plants to make organic molecules. The animals consume the plants that already constitute the nitrogen and then incorporates in their body and broken down as waste or excreted as urea in urine. The organic nitrogen is then converted into nitrogen gas through a terrestrial land ecosystem (Mackensen and Roberts 605). Therefore, the presence of adequate nutrients in the soil enhances the growth of the plants.

Nutrient cycling allows the transformation of matter to different forms that helps in the utilization of elements to different organisms. For example, in the nitrogen cycle, the nitrogen is transformed into ammonia and nitrate. These nutrients will enhance the unlimited growth of the plant. Also, the cycles improve the equal distribution of nutrients to different areas. In case the nutrients are highly concentrated in one area that is inaccessible to living organisms, through cycling, the nutrient can easily be distributed (Abramoff 2085).

Cycling enhances the interlinkage of living organisms with non-living organisms. This is important because the organisms depend on each other. The flow of nutrients helps in the linking of the organisms (Richard P Phillips 334). Example, in the carbon cycle, the non-living organisms acquired the carbon iv oxide from the atmosphere and then the living organisms that consume the plants, take in the carbon. Therefore, the two organisms are dependent on each other.

Energy is stimulated in the body of living organisms through the consumed nutrients from the plants. The cycling process helps the plants to be rich in nutrients, so as the food from it can be energetic to the living organism (Wheeler 566). The nitrate nutrient from the nitrogen cycle helps in fertilization of the soil that helps in the growth of healthy plants.

The maintenance of health and development of the health ecosystem is another importance of cycling. Through the phosphorus cycle, the nutrient is released to the plant that strengthens the bones and the muscles. As well, helping in the filtration of the waste in the human body. Also, through the phosphorus cycle, phosphate nutrients are released to the soil hence promoting fertility hence growth of the plants. The phosphorus cycle is a type biochemical that describes the phosphorus flow in different spheres like lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere (Thomas D Bullen 67). It is brought about by the pressure in compounds on earth. The runoff that occurs on the earth reduces the concentration of phosphorus in the soil leading to slow microbial growth. Therefore, the microorganisms in the soil act as sources of the phosphorus in the biochemical cycle. The cycle occurs during the weathering of rocks that leads to the release of phosphate ions. The inorganic phosphates are then distributed in the soil and water; hence the plants acquire the phosphate ions from the soil. The living organisms then consume the plants, and that is how the living organisms obtain the phosphorus.

Cycling helps in the maintenance of the soil structure and enhances the sustainability of soil quality. The microbial organisms in the soil enhance carbon loss through respiration and degradation of organic pollutants and immobilization of heavy materials leading to quality in the soil. Incase soil has insufficient acid in it; nitrification helps to enrich the acidity in the soil through nitrogen cycle (Rose and Kimberly 2085).

The cycling process is of importance to the living organisms as well as to no n living organisms. The living organisms are made up of nitrogen, carbon and phosphates. The amino acids contain the carbon and nitrogen necessary in the making of proteins, and the phosphates contain DNA and ATP that enriches the soil fertility (Weixi 75). The fossil fuel burning by human beings leads to accumulation of the carbon iv oxide in the atmosphere leading to global warming. Therefore, the alteration of the cycles by human beings can bring influence to all the organisms. For example, in case there is the disruption of the biochemical cycle in the nitrogen cycle, can lead to excessive production of nitrates from fertilizers leads to algae blooms that depletes dissolved oxygen and can also lead to dead ozone (Huajun 221).

In conclusion, the disruption of processes should be minimal. This is simply because alteration of the process can influence the health of many living organisms or even lead to the production of hazardous plants, the aquatic animals will not survive, and now the life will be full of complications due to poor health. We can now understand that is, in these cycles, there is the emission of gases in the atmosphere that is risky since the climatic change can occur. It cannot favour the living organisms nor the non-living organisms (Changfu 78). Completion of the cycling process is also essential, as seen in the above discussions. Therefore, it would be better we try to minimize disruption to embrace the positive impact of cycling. For example, human activities like deforestation, burning of fossil fuel, industrialization influences the cycling process, and this brings in the negative effect of the cycle. Industrial activities involve the burning of coal and internal combustion engine resulting in the production of Sulphur dioxide that in excess, interferes with the Sulphur cycle. Also burning of fossil fuel influences the environment and interferes with the cycle. Burning of fossil fuel leads to the release of carbon on the form of carbon iv oxide in large amount in the atmosphere. This influences the cycle leading to lesser carbon shrinks and also more gases that lead to climatic change (Abramoff 2087).

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