- Unicellular
- Prokaryotic
- Lives in harsh environments.
- Some produce energy from chemosyntheses.
Three main Phyla in Kingdom Archaebacteria are...
- Methanogens-have the ability to harvest energy by converting H2 and CO2 into methane gas.
- Halophiles-salt helps them to thrive.
- Thermoacidophiles-found in extreme acid conditions and in high temperatures.
Halobacterium
- Scientific name-Halobacterium
- Moves by using hairlike flagella at their ends.
- They have a hight tolerance level of salt and they live in areas with high concentration levels of salt.
- Need at least three to four times the amount of salt in sea water and can stand up to nine times the salt in sea water!
- If they don't get enough salt then their outer protein "wall" and their inner cell membrane will dissolve which destroys the cell.
- They have red pigment and that causes the water they are in to seem red or pink.
- They can stay alive in dry salt crystals for years!
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