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- Multiple organisms interact: soil ecosystem
- Multiple organisms strip nutrients: forests
- Enzymes allow cellulose digestion: bacteria
- Enzymatic liquid digests insects: green pitcher-plant
- Cellulose digested for fuel: protozoans
- Enzyme oxidizes fat-soluble organic chemicals: animals
- Organisms work together to decompose cellulose: earthworm
- Toxin breaks down tissue: Mycobacterium ulcerans
- VOCs used as carbon and energy source: fungus
- Enzymes help break down plant cell walls: Bacillus bacteria
- Organism digests blood: hookworm
- Gut microbes digest cellulose: termites
- Special liquid softens hard cocoon: puss moth
- Bacteria degrade petroleum hydrocarbons: Marinobacter
- Enzyme breaks down hydrocarbons: bacteria
- Microorganisms degrade crude oil: bacteria
- Enzyme degrades lignin: Trametes fungi
- Extremophile converts fatty-acids into energy: bacteria
- Breaking down crude oil: Archaea bacteria
- Breaking down crude oil: aerobic bacteria
- Breaking down crude oil: fungi
- Breaking down crude oil: yeast
- Skin resists microorganisms: pilot whale
- Digestive solution removes excess algae: giant clam
- Secretions break down algal walls: stony corals
- Digesting various substances: fungi
- Mixture waterproofs nests: paper wasps
- Head bores through wood: shipworm
- Bees collect DDT: orchid bees
- Symbiosis enhances pollutant breakdown: plants and microbes
- Enzymes degrade fluoranthene: Pleurotus ostreatus
- Biochemical pathways enable the use of caffeine as a feedstock: Pseudomonas putida
- Saliva breaks down blood clots: vampire bats
- Enyzme complexes "burn" hydrocarbons for energy: Pseudomonas putida bacteria
- Bacteria cooperate to survive: Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum
- Enzymes sulfoxidize toxic organosulfur: Agrocybe aegerita fungus
- Enzymes break down pesticides: honey bee
