Why is it important to avoid applying too much nitrogen fertilizer?

too much nitrogen in surface runoff can cause algae to overgrow

Explanation:

Nitrogen fertilizers used in large-scale agriculture could leave a legacy of pollution that would persist for decades in soil and groundwater, scientists in France and Canada warned, which published a study in the National Academy of Sciences magazine, " PNAS ". According to these scientists, the excess of these fertilizers in the environment has been linked to contaminated drinking water and can cause the rapid growth of algae that compromise aquatic ecosystems and coastal marine life.

dna is made up of six smaller molecules -- a five carbon sugar called deoxyribose, a phosphate molecule and four different nitrogenous bases (adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine).

hydroxyl -oh

alcohols, always polar, can form hydrogen bonds with h2o molecules

carboxyl -cooh  

cargoxylic acids, has acidic properties which is a source of hydrogen ions, found in cells in ionized for with a charge of oh-1

carbonyl > co

ketone if within skeleton, aldehyde if group is at the end of skeleton, k & a may be structural isomers, it determines 2 sugars (ketose & aldose)

amino -nh2

amines, acts as a base, it can pick up h+ ions from surrounding solution, ionized with charge of 1+

methyl ch2

addition to rna/dna affects and gene expression

phosphate -opo3 ²⁻

organic phosphates, contributes to negative charge to, molecule that it is a part of, and potential to react with h20

sulfhydryl -sh

thiols, cross-linking stabilize the protein, and it is structure