Extremophiles are tough little guys that not only survive but thrive in the harshest environments on Earth; unforgiving places like volcanic vents at the bottom of the sea, lakes of acid, and your bellybutton
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[Truth or Fail]
Single-species Ecosystem
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10336-gold-mine-holds-life-untouched-by-the-sun/
Extremophile Cheese
https://www.businessinsider.com/belly-button-innie-inside-cheese-bacteria-lint-fungi-2019-7
Fluffy Pink Golden Fungus
[Fact Off]
Berkeley pit extremophiles:
https://medium.com/vision-2018/life-from-the-pit-70d3e0fbc0f6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEnWZcG3Nzk
PCR & Taq polymerase:
https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Fact-Sheet
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/probe/docs/techpcr/
https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/10342020
https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/yellowstone-bacteria-beer-science
[Ask the Science Couch]
Extremophiles:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4187170/
Bacteria vs. Archaea:
http://bio1520.biology.gatech.edu/biodiversity/prokaryotes-bacteria-archaea-2/
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaea.html
Archaea characteristics:
https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/astrobiology/environments/
https://microbiologyonline.org/about-microbiology/introducing-microbes/archaea
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaeamm.html
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Pompeii worm:
https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/marinesymbiosis/pompeii.html