A Field Biologist Finds What Might Be a New Species

question 72

Multiple Choice

A field biologist finds what might be a new species of prokaryote in sewage sludge. It is an obligate anaerobe that metabolizes organic acids and requires hydrogen gas. It lacks a peptidoglycan cell wall. The new find may be a

• A) clostridium.
• B) mycoplasma.
• C) bacteroides.
• D) methanogen.
• E) cyanobacterium.

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