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Food additives such as 3-nitro·oxy·propanol can reduce the production of this compound in one organism, which can also be reduced using red algae. Berkeley Lab’s SUMMATION project monitors the dynamics of super-producers of this compound in the San Joaquin Valley. Nickel from Permian volcanism enabled the production of this compound by a genus partly named “sarcina,” (15[1])which likely exacerbated the (15[1])Great Dying. The Mcr complex (-5[1])evolves (-5[1])this compound from (*) acetate or hydrogen in archaea, which mainly generate sulfur or this compound at “white smokers.” Because their environments are oxygen-poor, microbes in rice paddies and wetlands are large producers of this substance, which is also produced by ruminant microbes in livestock. (10[2])For 10 points, the second-most potent greenhouse gas is what simplest alkane? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: methane [or CH4; accept marsh gas; accept methanogens or methanotrophs; accept Methanosarcina]
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