Multiple choice

Which of the following nutritional modes is followed by Oceanithermus profundus?

  1. Chemoorganoheterotropy

  2. Chemoorganoautotropy

  3. Chemolithoheterotropy

  4. Chemolithoautotropy
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Explanation

Oceanithermus profundus follows chemolithoheterotrophic mode of nutrition. It is a moderately thermophilic, organotrophic, microaerophilic and facultatively chemolithotrophic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent site at 13-N in the East Pacific Rise.

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