Biology
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ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 58, Problem 6U
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities
a. get their energy from photosynthesis in the photic zone near the surface.
b. use bioluminescence to generate food.
c. are built on the energy produced by the activity of chemoautotrophs that oxidize sulfur.
d. contain only bacteria and other microorganisms.
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