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  2. Anoxygenic photosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    Anoxygenic photosynthesis is a special form of photosynthesis used by some bacteria and archaea, which differs from the better known oxygenic photosynthesis in plants in the reductant used (e.g. hydrogen sulfide instead of water) and the byproduct generated (e.g. elemental sulfur instead of molecular oxygen).

  3. Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria (AAPBs) are Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria that are obligate aerobes that capture energy from light by anoxygenic photosynthesis. Anoxygenic photosynthesis is the phototrophic process where light energy is captured and stored as ATP. The production of oxygen is non-existent and, therefore ...

  4. Photoautotroph - Wikipedia

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    Cyanobacteria is the only prokaryotic group that performs oxygenic photosynthesis. Anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria use PSI- and PSII-like photosystems, which are pigment protein complexes for capturing light. [5] Both of these photosystems use bacteriochlorophyll. There are multiple hypotheses for how oxygenic photosynthesis evolved.

  5. Purple bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Another example, Thermochromatium tepidum, has been found in several hot springs in western North America at temperatures above 58 °C (136 °F) and may represent the most thermophilic extant Pseudomonadota. [30] Of the purple sulfur bacteria, many members of the Chromatiaceae family are often found in fresh water and marine environments.

  6. Green sulfur bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Nitrogen fixation among green sulfur bacteria is generally typical of an anoxygenic phototroph, and requires the presence of light. Green sulfur bacteria exhibit activity from a Type-1 secretion system and a ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase to generate reduced iron, a trait that evolved to support nitrogen fixation. [ 34 ]

  7. Photosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    The term photosynthesis is derived from the Greek phōs (φῶς, gleam) and sýnthesis (σύνθεσις, arranging together), [97] [98] [99] while another word that he designated was photosyntax, from sýntaxis (σύνταξις, configuration). Over time, the term photosynthesis came into common usage. Later discovery of anoxygenic ...

  8. Primary nutritional groups - Wikipedia

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    Examples Sun Light Photo-Organic-organo-Organic-heterotroph: Photo organo heterotroph: Some bacteria: Rhodobacter, and some archaea (Haloarchaea) [8] Carbon dioxide-autotroph: Photo organo autotroph: Some bacteria perform anoxygenic photosynthesis and fix atmospheric carbon (Chloroflexia, Heliobacterium) Inorganic-litho-* Organic-heterotroph ...

  9. Chromatiaceae - Wikipedia

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    For example, they can use the toxic and bad-smelling hydrogen sulfide as the electron source and the greenhouse gas methane as the carbon source for anoxygenic photosynthesis; in this way, the contaminants are removed from the lagoon thus reducing odour and toxicity as well as atmospheric pollution, respectively. [36] [37]