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chemoautotrophic

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chemoautotrophic /che·mo·au·to·tro·phic/ (-aw″to-tro´fik) capable of synthesizing cell constituents from carbon dioxide with energy from inorganic reactions.
chemoautotrophic [ke″mo-au″to-trof´ik]
capable of synthesizing cell constituents from carbon dioxide by means of energy derived from inorganic reactions.


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High species richness in deep-sea chemoautotrophic whale skeleton communities.
Hattiesburg, MS, 39406 Carboxysomes are biological nanoreactors in some photo- and chemoautotrophic prokaryotes which can transform inorganic C[O.
Here sulfide-rich effluents support dense communities of free-living bacteria, as well as tube worms and mollusks living in symbiosis with chemoautotrophic bacteria (internal bacteria that fix organic carbon using chemical energy from reduced compounds such as sulfide).
 
 
 
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