A group of college students working on a project on bio-gas have found some bacteria in the bio-gas plant. These bacteria can utilize methane as their source of energy and do not need oxygen for their survival. What kind of bacteria could they be?
A. Archaebacteria
B. Eubacteria
C. Probacteria

Question

A group of college students working on a project on bio-gas have found some bacteria in the bio-gas plant. These bacteria can utilize methane as their source of energy and do not need oxygen for their survival. What kind of bacteria could they be?
 A. Archaebacteria
 B. Eubacteria
 C. Probacteria

anonymous · Answer

That would be Archaebacteria and it's further divided in three groups. One of them is: (Methanotrophs) also called methanophiles)  that are able to metabolize methane as their only source of carbon and energy. They can grow aerobically or anaerobically and require single-carbon compounds to survive..