acetogenic bacteria
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acetogenic bacteria
[‚a·sə·tō¦jen·ik bak′tir·ē·ə] (biochemistry)
Anaerobic bacteria capable of reducing carbon dioxide to acetic acid or converting sugars into acetate.
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The decrease in CH4 production may be due to the utilization of metabolic H2 by
acetogenic bacteria to produce acetate.
Temperature characteristics of methanogenic archaea and
acetogenic bacteria isolated from cold environments.
In an anaerobic system, the
acetogenic bacteria convert organic matter to organic acids, possibly decreasing the pH, reducing the methane production rate and the overall anaerobic digestion process unless the acids were quickly consumed by the methanogens.
Unlike methanogens,
acetogenic bacteria convert [CO.sub.2] and [H.sub.2] to acetate ([CH.sub.3]COOH) rather than to methane.
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