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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Heterotroph''' bacteria can be either gram positive or the gram negative type. Some are strictly [[aerobic]], many species are facultative anaerobic <ref>[[w:Facultative aerobic|Definition on Wikipedia]]</ref> (they can switch mode from zero-low to high levels of [[oxygen]]).<br />
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When in the prescent of oxygen they convert [[ammonia]] to [[nitrite]] but they do this very inefficiently (about one million times less efficient) and are not true [[nitrifying]] bacteria (few heterotroph species can convert nitrites into nitrates. But only in zero levels of oxygen). Also in low-zero levels of oxygen they actively convert [[nitrogen]] waste back into nitrite and ammonia!<br />
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Heterotrophic bacteria are usually considered to be organic sludge degraders. That is, they breakdown the [[mulm]]. They are mostly from the genera Bacillus and Pseudomonas.<br />
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