What is the source of food, the first link in the food chain, in deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities?

a) cyanobacteria performing photosynthesis
b) black smokers providing hot water
c) heterotrophs eating dead whale carcasses
d) archaea performing chemosynthesis
e) all of the above


D

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