• The chemotroph designation is in contrast to phototrophs, which use photons. Chemotrophs can be either autotrophic or heterotrophic. Chemotrophs can be...
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    they will then fuse together for reproduction, and form another fungus. Chemotroph Micro-animals Microorganism "NOAA. ACE Basin National Estuarine Research...
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    Productivity Resource Restoration Producers Autotrophs Chemosynthesis Chemotrophs Foundation species Kinetotrophs Mixotrophs Myco-heterotrophy Mycotroph...
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    marine primary producers are specialised bacteria and archaea which are chemotrophs, making their own food by gathering around hydrothermal vents and cold...
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    substrates. Whereas phototrophs convert sunlight to chemical energy, chemotrophs depend on redox reactions that involve the transfer of electrons from...
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    near these volcanoes, and some support peculiar ecosystems based on chemotrophs feeding on dissolved minerals. Over time, the formations created by submarine...
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    flagella (all around the cell body, allowing them to move). They are chemotrophs, obtaining their energy from oxidation and reduction reactions, using...
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    acids and oligopeptides across its cell membrane. This bacterium is a chemotroph—it performs chemosynthesis to obtain food. However, since its range of...
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  • are used as bioremediation and biodegradation agents.[citation needed] Chemotroph Extremophile Heterotroph Lithoautotroph Horikoshi, Koki (2010) Extremophiles...
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    electron donor to a terminal electron acceptor in a redox reaction. Chemotrophs are further divided by the types of compounds they use to transfer electrons...
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    energy from inorganic compounds such as sulfur or ammonia (they are chemotrophs). These include nitrifiers, methanogens and anaerobic methane oxidisers...
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    and carnivorous plants. Phototrophs obtain energy from light, while chemotrophs obtain energy by consuming chemical energy from matter. Organotrophs...
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    as photoautotrophs, and can fix carbon. They can be contrasted with chemotrophs that obtain their energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their...
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    assigning them as chemotrophs or phototrophs. Phototrophs utilize light to obtain energy and carry out metabolic processes, whereas chemotrophs use the energy...
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  • it has recently been discovered that there are some forms of life, chemotrophs, that appear to gain all their metabolic energy from chemosynthesis driven...
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  • absorb light in photoreceptors and transform it into chemical energy. Chemotrophs release chemical energy. The freed energy is stored as potential energy...
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    Productivity Resource Restoration Producers Autotrophs Chemosynthesis Chemotrophs Foundation species Kinetotrophs Mixotrophs Myco-heterotrophy Mycotroph...
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  • autotrophic producers, but those that oxidize CH3COO− are classed as chemotroph instead. The digestive tract of animals is characterized by a nutrient-rich...
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  • Energy source Carbon source Chemotroph Phototroph Autotroph Chemoautotroph Photoautotroph Heterotroph Chemoheterotroph Photoheterotroph...
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    (phototroph and photoautotroph) or the energy in inorganic chemical compounds (chemotrophs or chemolithotrophs) to build organic molecules, which is usually accumulated...
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  • of Gram-positive bacteria related to Clostridium. They are anaerobic chemotrophs and are unusual spore-formers as they produce more than one spore per...
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    serpentinization are released at these vents and provide energy sources for deep sea chemotroph microorganisms. Olivine is a solid solution of forsterite, the magnesium...
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  • with minimal light for photosynthesis. Kinetotrophs could descend from chemotrophs, and have been hypothesized to take the form of sedentary ciliates and...
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    of organisms in cold seeps and the deep sea in general. Oceans portal Chemotroph Gas hydrate pingo Guaymas Basin This article incorporates a public domain...
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    marine primary producers are specialised bacteria and archaea which are chemotrophs, making their own food by gathering around hydrothermal vents and cold...
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    (13,000 to 20,000 ft). The only organisms that inhabit this zone are chemotrophs and predators that can withstand immense pressures, sometimes as high...
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