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    hypothesized that anaerobic chemosynthesis may support life below the surface of Mars, Jupiter's moon Europa, and other planets. Chemosynthesis may have also been...
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    In molecular nanotechnology, chemosynthesis is any chemical synthesis where reactions occur due to random thermal motion, a class which encompasses almost...
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  • hydrothermal vents. Chemoautotrophs are autotrophic organisms that can rely on chemosynthesis, i.e. deriving biological energy from chemical reactions of environmental...
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  • Hydrogen sulfide chemosynthesis is a form of chemosynthesis which uses hydrogen sulfide. It is common in hydrothermal vent microbial communities Due to...
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    between the tube worm Riftia and chemosynthetic bacteria. It is this chemosynthesis that supports the complex communities that can be found around hydrothermal...
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  • life, chemotrophs, that appear to gain all their metabolic energy from chemosynthesis driven by hydrothermal vents, thus showing that some life may not require...
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    fixing atmospheric nitrogen and not living in legume root nodules. Chemosynthesis – his most noted discovery The Winogradsky column Winogradsky is best...
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    fixed through photosynthesis, but some organisms use a process called chemosynthesis in the absence of sunlight. Organisms that grow by fixing carbon are...
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    and organic building blocks are obtained through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, and with saprozoic nutrition, in which digestive enzymes are released...
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    sunlight. Bacteria instead use sulfur compounds as an energy source, via chemosynthesis. Counterclockwise is also the direction of revolution around the Sun...
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  • based completely on chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis. Similar caves where life partly or fully depends on chemosynthesis have been found in Ein-Nur...
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    nutrients for deep sea communities are marine snow, whale falls, and chemosynthesis at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Prior to the 19th century scientists...
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    seeps on the dark sea floor consume organic matter produced through chemosynthesis (via oxidizing inorganic compounds such as hydrogen sulfide) by archaea...
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  • molecule to produce an organic molecule, using sunlight as a catalyst Chemosynthesis, the synthesis of biological compounds into organic waste, using methane...
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    gene synthesis Biomimetic synthesis Bioretrosynthesis Biosynthesis Chemosynthesis Convergent synthesis Custom peptide synthesis Direct process Divergent...
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    gene synthesis Biomimetic synthesis Bioretrosynthesis Biosynthesis Chemosynthesis Convergent synthesis Custom peptide synthesis Direct process Divergent...
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    photosynthesis Calvin-Benson cycle Carbon fixation Cellular respiration Chemosynthesis Daily light integral Hill reaction Integrated fluorometer Light-dependent...
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    organisms in their immediate vicinity. The basis for this teeming life is chemosynthesis, a process by which microbes convert such substances as hydrogen sulfide...
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    energy from light (photosynthesis) or inorganic chemical reactions (chemosynthesis). They convert an abiotic source of energy (e.g. light) into energy...
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  • called chemosynthesis, much as plants do in photosynthesis. Plants use energy from sunlight to drive carbon dioxide fixation, but chemosynthesis can take...
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    process known as chemosynthesis. Some bacteria and archaea use hydrogen sulfide in place of water as the electron donor in chemosynthesis, a process similar...
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    which uses light as its source of energy, but it also occurs through chemosynthesis, which uses the oxidation or reduction of inorganic chemical compounds...
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    plankton ecosystems are driven by the input of solar energy (but see chemosynthesis), confining primary production to surface waters, and to geographical...
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    Black carbon Blue carbon Kerogen Metabolic pathways Photosynthesis Chemosynthesis Calvin cycle Reverse Krebs cycle Carbon fixation C3 C4 Carbon respiration...
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    gene synthesis Biomimetic synthesis Bioretrosynthesis Biosynthesis Chemosynthesis Convergent synthesis Custom peptide synthesis Direct process Divergent...
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    Black carbon Blue carbon Kerogen Metabolic pathways Photosynthesis Chemosynthesis Calvin cycle Reverse Krebs cycle Carbon fixation C3 C4 Carbon respiration...
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    sunlight. Here primary producers manufacture food through a process called chemosynthesis. Consumers (heterotrophs) are species that cannot manufacture their...
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    Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) – NADH – pyruvate – oxalate – citrate Chemosynthesis Regulation hormones : auxin signal transduction – growth factor – transcription...
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  • latter remained the source of electrons for the cells. Autotrophic Chemosynthesis Chemotrophic Heterotrophic Lithotrophic Metabolism Mixotrophic Organotrophic...
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    chemolithoautotrophy based on the radioactive decay of uranium. This chemosynthesis revolutionized the study of biology and astrobiology by revealing that...
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