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  • noun biology Any organism that generates acetic acid or acetate as a product of acetogenesis

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  • The acetogen produces acetate and H2 and CO2, thereby disrupting the process of auto-inhibition with the acetogen, which succumbs to the H2 it produces.

    Chapter 15 1979

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