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Amjad Khan Afridi
Biogeochemical Cycles
What is Biogeochemical Cycles?
Biogeochemical Cycles or Nutrient cycles:
Is how elements, chemical compounds, and other
forms of matter are passed from one organism to
another and from one part of the biosphere to
another.
Types of Biogeochemical Cycle:
• Atmospheric- carbon cycle and nitrogen cycle
• Sedimentary - phosphorus cycle and Sulphur
cycle
Biogeochemical cycles
• Matter can neither be created or destroyed.
• A constant amount of matter in the
environment must be recycled.
• Microbes are essential in the conversion of nutrients into organic and usable formats.
• Microbes are essential in the conversion of nutrients into the inorganic form.
A. The carbon cycle
Carbon is a key ingredient of living tissue.
In the atmosphere, carbon is present as carbon dioxide gas,
CO2. Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere by,
Volcanic activity, respiration, Human activities
The Plants take in carbon dioxide and use the carbon to build carbohydrates during
photosynthesis.
The carbohydrates are passedalong food webs to animals and other consumers.
In the ocean, carbon is also found, along with calcium and oxygen, in calcium carbonate, which
is formed by many marine organism decomposition of organic matter.
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The Carbon Cycle
B. The nitrogen cycle
Microbes decompose proteins form dead cells and release amino acids.
Ammonia is liberated by microbial ammonification of amino acids.
Ammonia is
oxidized to produce
nitrates for energy
by nitrifying
bacteria.
Denitrifying bacteria
reduce nitrogen in
nitrates to molecular
nitrogen.
N2 is converted into
ammonia by
nitrogen fixing
bacteria
Ammonium and
nitrate are used by
bacteria and plants
to synthesize
amino acids.
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C. Sulfur cycle
Plants and certain microbes can use SO42- to make amino acids.
H2S is oxidized to form SO42-.
D. The Phosphorus Cycle
 Inorganic phosphorus is
solubilized by microbial
acids.
 Made available to plants and
other microbes Is soluble in
water
 Combines with calcium in
calcium phosphate .
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Life Without Sunshine
• Primary producers in most ecosystems are photoautotroph's.
• Primary producers in deep ocean and endolithic communities are chemoautotrophic
bacteria.
Oxygenic photosynthesis
Algae, cyanobacteria, aerobic heterotrophs
– CO2 + H2O CH2O + O2
H2O is a source of electrons
– CH2O + O2 CO2 + H2O
Aerobic respiration
An oxygenic photosynthesis
H2S oxidizers
CO2 + H2S CH2O + S + H2O
H2S is a source of electrons
Cyanobacteria
 Tremendous ecological importance
in the C, O and N cycles.
 Evolutionary relationship to plants.
 Cyanobacteria have chlorophyll a,
carotenoids and phycobilins.
 Cyanobacteria are very similar to
the chloroplasts of red algae
(Rhodophyta).
 Several species of cyanobacteria
are symbionts of liverworts, ferns,
cycads, flagellated protozoa, and
algae.
Example:
There is also an example of a cyanobacterium as endosymbionts of plant cells.
Dr. Kashif Bashir
Notes: M.PHIL (Microbiology), 2nd Semester
Chapter # 02
Date: 25th September, 2019
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Biogeochemical cycles

  • 1. 1 Amjad Khan Afridi Biogeochemical Cycles What is Biogeochemical Cycles? Biogeochemical Cycles or Nutrient cycles: Is how elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another. Types of Biogeochemical Cycle: • Atmospheric- carbon cycle and nitrogen cycle • Sedimentary - phosphorus cycle and Sulphur cycle Biogeochemical cycles • Matter can neither be created or destroyed. • A constant amount of matter in the environment must be recycled. • Microbes are essential in the conversion of nutrients into organic and usable formats. • Microbes are essential in the conversion of nutrients into the inorganic form. A. The carbon cycle Carbon is a key ingredient of living tissue. In the atmosphere, carbon is present as carbon dioxide gas, CO2. Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere by, Volcanic activity, respiration, Human activities The Plants take in carbon dioxide and use the carbon to build carbohydrates during photosynthesis. The carbohydrates are passedalong food webs to animals and other consumers. In the ocean, carbon is also found, along with calcium and oxygen, in calcium carbonate, which is formed by many marine organism decomposition of organic matter.
  • 2. 2 Amjad Khan Afridi The Carbon Cycle B. The nitrogen cycle Microbes decompose proteins form dead cells and release amino acids. Ammonia is liberated by microbial ammonification of amino acids. Ammonia is oxidized to produce nitrates for energy by nitrifying bacteria. Denitrifying bacteria reduce nitrogen in nitrates to molecular nitrogen. N2 is converted into ammonia by nitrogen fixing bacteria Ammonium and nitrate are used by bacteria and plants to synthesize amino acids.
  • 3. 3 Amjad Khan Afridi C. Sulfur cycle Plants and certain microbes can use SO42- to make amino acids. H2S is oxidized to form SO42-. D. The Phosphorus Cycle  Inorganic phosphorus is solubilized by microbial acids.  Made available to plants and other microbes Is soluble in water  Combines with calcium in calcium phosphate .
  • 4. 4 Amjad Khan Afridi Life Without Sunshine • Primary producers in most ecosystems are photoautotroph's. • Primary producers in deep ocean and endolithic communities are chemoautotrophic bacteria. Oxygenic photosynthesis Algae, cyanobacteria, aerobic heterotrophs – CO2 + H2O CH2O + O2 H2O is a source of electrons – CH2O + O2 CO2 + H2O Aerobic respiration An oxygenic photosynthesis H2S oxidizers CO2 + H2S CH2O + S + H2O H2S is a source of electrons Cyanobacteria  Tremendous ecological importance in the C, O and N cycles.  Evolutionary relationship to plants.  Cyanobacteria have chlorophyll a, carotenoids and phycobilins.  Cyanobacteria are very similar to the chloroplasts of red algae (Rhodophyta).  Several species of cyanobacteria are symbionts of liverworts, ferns, cycads, flagellated protozoa, and algae. Example: There is also an example of a cyanobacterium as endosymbionts of plant cells. Dr. Kashif Bashir Notes: M.PHIL (Microbiology), 2nd Semester Chapter # 02 Date: 25th September, 2019 Made By Amjad Khan Afridi