| 1. | This process of obtaining energy from chemicals is known as chemosynthesis.
|
| 2. | Instead, Tenebra's plants use chemosynthesis based on the transformation of sulphur oxides.
|
| 3. | Lithotrophs that can produce sugars through chemosynthesis make up the base of some food chains.
|
| 4. | It is this chemosynthesis that supports the complex communities that can be found around hydrothermal vents.
|
| 5. | Chemosynthesis of bacteria provide the energy and organic matter for the whole food web in vent ecosystems.
|
| 6. | Many microorganisms in dark regions of the oceans also use chemosynthesis to produce biomass from single carbon molecules.
|
| 7. | Bacteria are able to use reduced compounds from the vent effluent as an energy source ( chemosynthesis ).
|
| 8. | Autotrophs are organisms that produce their own food ( production is greater than respiration ) by photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
|
| 9. | In these environments bacteria replace plants, through chemosynthesis, by transforming carbon molecules and nutrients into organic matter.
|
| 10. | High concentrations of methane and sulfide in the fluids escaping from the seafloor are the principal energy sources for chemosynthesis.
|