These microorganisms are able to make what they need to supply themselves with nourishment and energy. Some examples of chemoautotrophs include sulfur-oxidizing bacteria, nitrogen-fixing bacteria and iron-oxidizing bacteria.
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Mesquite is a leguminous plant of the Prosopis genus found in northern Mexico through the Sonoran Desert and Chihuahuan Deserts, and up into the Southwestern United States as far north as southern Kansas, west to the Colorado Desert in California, and east to the eastern fifth of Texas, where average annual rainfall is in excess of 40 in.