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Summary
The chemicals in hydrothermal vent fluid would be toxic to most forms of life familiar to us, but amazingly, a unique ecosystem has evolved to live at hydrothermal vents. These organisms are not dependent on sunlight and photosynthesis, but instead rely on chemosynthesis, a process in which certain microbes use chemicals in the vent water to produce energy. They in turn form the base for an entire food chain of animals. Chemosynthetic microbes grow on and below the seafloor and even within other animals at the vents.
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This image is public domain, because it is a publication of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/education/curr_p1_12.html
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