Identify the incorrect statement regarding true bacteria?

1. As a group, they exhibit maximum metabolic diversity.
2. Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria play a great role in recycling nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous, iron and sulphur.
3. Heterotrophic bacteria are the most abundant in nature.
4. Bacteria reproduce mainly by fission but sometimes under favourable conditions, they produce spores.
Subtopic:  Kingdom Monera: Introduction | Kingdom Monera: Bacterial Cell Structure | Kingdom Monera: Surface Appendages | Kingdom Monera: Bacterial Reproduction | Kingdom Monera: Bacterial Recombination | Kingdom Monera: Bacterial Life Process | Kingdom Monera: Bacterial Classification |
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Bacteria reproduce mainly by:
1. fission
2. producing spores
3. a primitive type of DNA transfer
4. sexual method
Subtopic:  Kingdom Monera: Bacterial Reproduction |
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