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WOLFGANG1 has made the interesting suggestion that photodissociation of carbon dioxide to CO + O may provide the necessary ingredients for a chemotrophic primary production process conducted by living creatures on other planets, analogous to the primary production function of photosynthesis on the Earth. Wolfgang cites Bacillus oligocarbophilus as a terrestrial precedent for biological oxidation of carbon monoxide; Hydrogenomonas carboxydovorans2 is a more recently described example.
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POSTGATE, J. Carbon Monoxide as a Basis for Primitive Life on Other Planets: a Comment. Nature 226, 978 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226978a0
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