EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Archaea, one of the three domains of life, is a highly diverse and abundant group of prokaryotes, and includes a number of “extremophiles” that thrive in such environments as hot springs, salt lakes, and submarine volcanic habitats (33).

Detailed explanation-2: -Extremophiles are unicellular microbes (bacteria and archaea) that thrive in extreme environments. Many of these belong to archaea, which are considered to be an ancient bridge between bacteria and eukarya.

Detailed explanation-3: -Archaea are famous for their love of living in extreme environments. If it’s super hot (more than 100° Celsius), freezing, acidic, alkaline, salty, deep in the ocean, even bombarded by gamma or UV radiation, there’s probably life there, and that life is probably archaeal species.

Detailed explanation-4: -"Extremophiles” are organisms with the ability to thrive in extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents. Since they live in “extreme environments” (under high pressure and temperature), they can tell us under which range of conditions life is possible.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is an Extremophile? An extremophile is an organism that thrives under “extreme” conditions. The term frequently refers to prokaryotes and is sometimes used interchangeably with Archaea.