SCIENCE
VIRUS AND BACTERIA
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Question
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halophile
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thermophile
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methanogen
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saltogen
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Detailed explanation-1: -Halophilic archaebacteria (haloarchaea) thrive in environments with salt concentrations approaching saturation, such as natural brines, the Dead Sea, alkaline salt lakes and marine solar salterns; they have also been isolated from rock salt of great geological age (195–250 million years).
Detailed explanation-2: -Halophiles. The halophiles, which means “salt-loving, ” live in environments with high levels of salt (Figure below). They have been identified in the Great Salt Lake in Utah and in the Dead Sea between Israel and Jordan, which have salt concentrations several times that of the oceans.
Detailed explanation-3: -Colloquial for halophilic archaebacteria (or archaea ), which are single-celled life forms. Synonyms: Haloarchaea (plural), haloarchaeon (singular). Halobacterium. The name of a genus of the archaeal family Halobacteriaceae (Grant, 2001).