I'm looking for an anaerobic organism that does not use fermentation. Any examples?
2007-11-06 13:33:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Wow. Richard J has no idea what he's talking about. Plants and fungi both REQUIRE oxygen to live. To carry out aerobic respiration, which both plants and fungi do, they MUST have oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor in order to produce ATP.
Anaerobic organisms have two different lifestyle choices: (1) Anaerobic respiration, which does not use oxygen as terminal electron acceptor. (A common alternative is nitrate, for instance.) (2) Fermentation.
2007-11-07 18:56:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anaerobic organisms have to use fermentation to keep glycolysis going. Are you sure there's an organism that fits this question?
2007-11-06 13:46:31 · answer #2 · answered by ecolink 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An anerobic organism is one that does not require Oxygen to produce ATP, they use fermentation instead. There are two kids of Fermentation, but both of them produce ATP by substrate-level phosphoralysation. It is said that this was one of the early methods of creating ATP, when there was more CO2 in the air than Oxygen
2007-11-06 13:48:06 · answer #3 · answered by MexicanSIdeOfThis 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I came across this article that states that there are some chlorate-reducing bacteria that had been isolated from our environment and that are anaerobic non-fermentative. One of the strains is called CKB.
here is the link:
http://www.science.siu.edu/microbiology/achenbach/CKB.pdf
2007-11-06 14:12:58 · answer #4 · answered by slunickosd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An anaerobic organism is any organism that does not require oxygen for growth. Eg. Plants, Fungi.
2007-11-06 13:39:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋