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Can autotrophic microorganisms utilize co2? Can it be the only carbon source? What about the chemoautotrophic type?
It seems that it can only be CO2. Are there other carbon sources on the earth?

Chemotactic autotrophic microorganism

Microorganisms that use carbon dioxide as carbon source and use the energy released in the oxidation process of inorganic compounds such as ammonium, nitrite, hydrogen sulfide and iron ions to grow. The main groups are sulfur bacteria, nitrifying bacteria and iron bacteria. Their growth needs to be carried out under aerobic conditions. Most methanogenic bacteria can survive on their own. They grow with hydrogen as energy source and carbon dioxide as carbon source, and the product is methane, which we call anaerobic autotrophic bacteria.

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