Brock Biology of Microorganisms (15th Edition)
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Chapter 17.3, Problem 1MQ
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Acidophiles are the organisms mostly microbes which survive in extreme acidic environment of less than (2.0) pH. Acidophilic organisms evolved a specialized mechanism to adapt such environmental conditions like possessing special type of cytoplasmic proteins and ion pumping out mechanisms.
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