The anaerobic, chemoautotrophic archaeobacterium Methanococcus jannaschii uses which of the following carbon-fixation pathways to obtain organic carbon from CO2? the Hill reaction the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway the Calvin cycle oxygenic photosynthesis the Krebs cycle

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. The anaerobic, chemoautotrophic archaeobacterium Methanococcus jannaschii uses which of the following carbon-fixation pathways to obtain organic carbon from CO2?

  1. the Hill reaction
  2. the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway
  3. the Calvin cycle
  4. oxygenic photosynthesis
  5. the Krebs cycle

 

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Introduction: Methanogens are prokaryotic microbes which form methane as a metabolic byproduct in hypoxic environments.  

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