If bacteria can live off of rocks using chemosynthesis as a source of energy, they can live off of oil in a similar way.
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Since chemosynthesis can take place in the absence of sunlight, these organisms are found mostly around hydrothermal vents and other locations rich in inorganic substrate.
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The sclerites may help protect the gastropod from the vent fluid, so that its bacteria can live close to the source of electron donors for chemosynthesis.
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These bacteria use sulfur compounds, particularly hydrogen sulfide, a chemical highly toxic to most known organisms, to produce organic material through the process of chemosynthesis.
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The bacteria derive their energy from chemosynthesis of volcanic sulfur compounds including H 2 S and warm-water solution dripping down from above, producing sulfuric acid.
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Life in the cave has been separated from the outside for the past 5.5 million years and it is based completely on chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis.
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The food chain is based on chemosynthesis in the form of methane-and sulfur-oxidising bacteria, which in turn release nutrients for fungi and other bacteria.
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This chemosynthesis revolutionized the study of biology and astrobiology by revealing that life need not be sun-dependent; it only requires water and an energy gradient in order to exist.
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Their cumulative energy fixation in carbon compounds ( primary production ) is the basis for the vast majority of oceanic and also many freshwater food webs ( chemosynthesis is a notable exception ).
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In 1897, Wilhelm Pfeffer coined the term " chemosynthesis " for the energy production by oxidation of inorganic substances, in association with autotrophy-what would be named today as chemolithoautotrophy.
