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Q: Are tube worms and bacteria mutualistic?
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Bacteria have a mutualistic relationship that provides plants with what?

Nitrogen


What other living things are found around thermal vents deep in the ocean?

Mats of bacteria, crabs, sea worms/ spagghetti, tube worms and more.


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Here's four: Blind shrimp, giant tube worms, crabs, and clams. They are supported by bacteria.


What are three different types of extremophiles?

Here's four: Blind shrimp, giant tube worms, crabs, and clams. They are supported by bacteria.


Which zone do tube worms live in?

the tube worms live in the abyssopelagic zone which is in the ocean.


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No worms have backbones. They are all invertebrates.


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bacteria, worms and fungi.


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What are the two types of bacteria found in the skin?

There are literally thousands of microbes that exist on the human skin. They are divided into commensual bacteria, which are not harmful, and mutualistic bacteria, which offer a benefit. Harmful bacteria are commonly referred to a pathogenic.


What is the mutualistic relationship between legumes and nodule bacteria?

They are caused by a symbiotic bacteria which benefits the plant by fixing atmospheric nitrogen (which the plant needs to make proteins).


What is the nature of the mutualistic relationship you share with your intestinal bacteria?

In any mutualistic relationship, both parties are helped in a way. In the case of humans and bacteria, the human cannot digest all of the food that it eats. The bacteria eat the food that the human cannot digest and partially digest it, allowing the human to finish the job. The bacteria benefit by getting food, and the human benefits by being able to digest the food it eats.


What is example of chemosynthesis?

Chemosynthesis is the conversion of carbon molecule(s) and nutrients into organic matter. An example of this is hydrogen sulfide chemosynthesis. This is a process used by giant tube worms, and produces sulfur.