Multiple Choice
Bacteria living in the deep sea
A) Are slow growing in all habitats
B) Are slow growing in abyssal soft sediments but grow rapidly near vents and seeps
C) Are not important in the food of macroinvertebrates anywhere in the deep sea
D) Are very similar to bacteria living in shallow water
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Q12: Cold seeps<br>A) Are found in the same
Q13: In polar regions a unique supply of
Q14: Vestimentiferans can live without a gut because<br>A)
Q15: Which of the following statements about hot-vent
Q16: Until the 1950s deep-sea sampling was hampered
Q17: Patchiness on the seabed is caused by<br>A)
Q18: Seamounts<br>A) Are never found near continental margins<br>B)
Q19: The high biomass adjacent to hot vents
Q21: Hot vents, while having a very distinctive