Chapter 20, Problem 2AQ

Summary Introduction

To explain:

The open ocean waters are highly toxic, predict the possible metabolic lifestyles of open-ocean Bacteria and Archaea. Why might the pigment rhodopsin be more abundant in one group of organism than in the other?

Concept introduction:

An ocean is the saline water body that comprises much of a hydrosphere of planets. An ocean is one of the vital conventional divisions of the world ocean on the earth. The ocean contains 97 percentage of earth’s water and entire volume is approximately 1.35 billion cubic kilometers with depth average nearly 3, 7000 m.