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A microbe isolated from an environmental sample grows on a medium composed of agar and a mix of salts. The agar is not digested during incubation. The growth rate decreases in low CO2 conditions. The organism is likely a(n)
Autotroph.
Halophile.
Heterotroph.
Chemotroph.
The answer can not be determined from the infrmation provided.
Autotroph is the answer.
Autotroph is defined as the mode of nutrition in which the organism makes their own food by itself.
Heterotroph is the organism which depend on another organism for mode of nutrition.
It is given that the organism growth rate decreases in low CO2. But it is higher in presence of high CO2 level. That's why organism is an autotroph.