You find yourself in a deep dark cave in a karstic environment and it smells like rotten eggs. In a stream you find white filaments that look like they could be microbes. You quickly realize that your shoes are being quickly damaged by the stream water that causes major irritation to your skin. Unfortunately, you do not have a pH meter and you can't really test the pH. 1. Please identify potential sources of energy, electron and carbon for these microbes. 2. What could be a possible terminal electron acceptor? 3. Name these organisms using nomenclature. 4. What could be the pH of the stream water?
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You find yourself in a deep dark cave in a karstic environment and it smells like rotten eggs. In a stream you find white filaments that look like they could be microbes. You quickly realize that your shoes are being quickly damaged by the stream water that causes major irritation to your skin. Unfortunately, you do not have a pH meter and you can't really test the pH.
1. Please identify potential sources of energy, electron and carbon for these microbes.
2. What could be a possible terminal electron acceptor?
3. Name these organisms using nomenclature.
4. What could be the pH of the stream water?
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