I’m taking two difference science classes this semester and both of them briefly discuss archaebacteria and how they existed in extreme conditions? Why is this? What is going on that allows them to do this while I would die probably in the same conditions? And what are even these “extreme conditions”?
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Archea, as a rule, **don’t** thrive in extreme conditions. There are a few species, called extremophiles, that can, but this is not a property they all have as a group. Some are able to do so because they are simpler prokaryotic lifeforms, and it is easier for them to evolve the alternate metabolic pathways needed to survive in extreme environments.
Extreme environments in this context include high temperatures, salinity, acidity, or high alkali content.
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