Isopropyl alcohol is not a product of any living organism. Some bacterial produce ethanol, but not isopropyl alcohol -- which, by the way, is somewhat poisonous.
Bacteria that lives on and produces isopropol alcohol?
i don't believe there is one, since iso alc is used to clean and sterilize things in medicine.
Reply:The only bacteria I'm aware of that *might* be able to produce it is Zymomonas mobilis, which because it produces alcohol from simple sugars and has been used in some dna experiments to produce ethanol may be able to if similarly altered. I know of none that consumes it as a nutrient.
Reply:Energetically speaking this is not possible - an organism cannot extract any energy from a substance if it both lives on and produces it.
So - answer: no!
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