NEET - 2009
Oxygenic photosynthesis occurs in
(1) Chromatium
(2) Oscillatoria
(3) Rhodospirillum
(4) Chlorobium
Audio Explanation:
(2) Oscillatoria is a photosynthetic cyanobacterium. In this, during photosynthesis water is electron donor and oxygen is a by-product, i.e., oxygenic phorosynthesis occurs. Rhodospirillum and Chlorobium are non-oxygenic photosynthetic, purple non-sulphur and green-sulphur bacteria.
Chromatium is purple sulphur bacterium, also a non-oxygenic photosynthetic.
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