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Thursday, 7 August 2014

Way of life of Chemotrophs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria

Another way of life of chemotrophs in the absence of possible electron acceptors is fermentation, wherein the electrons taken from the reduced substrates are transferred to oxidised intermediates to generate reduced fermentation products (e.g., lactateethanol,hydrogenbutyric acid). Fermentation is possible, because the energy content of the substrates is higher than that of the products, which allows the organisms to synthesise ATP and drive their metabolism.

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