Question

A scientist found a new bacteria in a hot water sulfur spring that uses sulfur as a source of energy instead sunlight. What kind of organism could it be?

Answer 1

Chemoheterolithotroph

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the bacteria derives energy from chemical compounds rather than from Sun, it is a chemotroph. Chemotrophs are the organisms that derive energy from chemical compounds.

Since the bacteria uses sulfur as fuel, it is chemolithotroph. Chemolithotrophs are the organisms that cannot fix carbon dioxide as the phototrophs do and use any inorganic compound.

Answer 2

This organism could be a chemosynthetic organism. These organisms perform the process chemosynthesis where one or more carbon molecules and nutrients into organic matter by oxidation of inorganic compounds. Hope this answers the question.