Environmental Precautions > Fate of Pesticides in The Environment > Degradation
In the case of this molecule, glyphosate, it is most often broken down by microbes.

Specific microbes feed on the glyphosate molecules.

Then the microbe breaks down the glyphoste molecule and releases the altered or broken pieces of the original molecule.

Click Next to continue. This is not scientifically correct or provide any detail as to how this is done, but is a cartoon to get the point across.
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