Multiple choice

Nature of Aquifex species is:

  1. thermophilic

  2. halophilic & autolithotrophic

  3. chemolithoautotrophic

  4. both 1 & 3

  5. lithotrophic

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Aquifex species is thermophilic as well as chemolithoautotroph that captures energy by oxidizing the hydrogen, sulfur, thiosulfate with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor. Original bacterial ancestor is thermophilic & chemolithoautotrophic.