Chapter 5, Problem 3TC

Summary Introduction

To determine:

What adaptation archaea possess to survive in extreme heat?

Introduction:

Archaea are able to survive extreme environment with the help of specific stable proteins. These are single cell microorganism a prokaryotes which were initially thought to be a bacteria called archaebacteria. The reason was that, archaea looks similar to bacteria but in reality archaea are more closely related with eukaryotes.

So, we have bacteria, eukaryotes and archaea, a three domains system that puts archaea in their own unique category.