(6 pts) You are a bacterium who is living in my gut, where a variety of...

(6 pts) You are a bacterium who is living in my gut, where a variety of nutrients are available.

Please describe 3 forms of cellular respiration that you could use for survival explaining what nutrients you could use, what pathways of cellular respiration would be involved, and what you would use as a final electron acceptor (4 pts).

You have a species of gut bacteria that you suspect may have the ability to cooperate metabolically with another species of gut bacteria. Design an experiment to determine how these species work together and what nutrients they use (2 pts).

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