2007-01-27 00:21:19 · 12 answers · asked by 0857 1 in Environment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anerobic_respiration
^^ check that out.
but a more direct question: creatures, as in like... animals?
no, not to my knowledge.
2007-01-27 00:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by synth 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientists at the Danish National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) and the University of Aarhus are the leaders of an international research team that is presenting ground-breaking news this week in the renowned journal Nature. These researchers have found small animals on the sea floor that breathe nitrate instead of oxygen. This means the textbooks will have to be rewritten – as regards both the nitrogen cycle and the ability of animals to survive without oxygen.
2007-01-27 00:29:03 · answer #2 · answered by †♥mslamom♥† 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some types of pikes can be frozen inside ice for several months without breathing, but no creatures that go with out breathing, sorry. By the way, I don't count bacteria as creatures.
2007-01-27 00:27:13 · answer #3 · answered by tammy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are loads of creatures that don't need oxygen. Thankfully, yeast can ferment their sugar for energy instead of using oxygen so we have such wonderful things as bread, beer, and wine!
2007-01-27 00:30:05 · answer #4 · answered by Jack D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many plants do not actually need oxygen. They need carbon dioxide. The omit oxygen though.
Which is why trees and plants are so important to our world. The "clean" the air.
2007-01-27 00:32:08 · answer #5 · answered by chember 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not certain but i think that their are types of sea creatures who live in the deepest of waters who require very little oxygen to breathe. if not at all and use properties from the water to stay alive instead.
2007-01-27 00:27:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are bacteria called obligate anaerobes, and are poisoned by oxygen. Instead of oxygen, they use some other molecule as a terminal electron acceptor.
2007-01-27 00:27:10 · answer #7 · answered by citizen insane 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your definition of creatures extends to some strains of bacteria and viruses, then the answer is yes.
2007-01-27 00:26:44 · answer #8 · answered by Rossghjr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Botulism spores will not germinate in the presence of oxygen.
2007-01-27 00:33:16 · answer #9 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anerobes, some bacteria are there which grows in absence of oxygen
eg.clostridium
2007-01-27 00:28:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋