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RE: Life Explorers – The Science Academy – Bacteria and Viruses
People always talk about bacteria when discussing prokaryotes but always leave out the much more interesting archaea. Anyway, nice post.
People always talk about bacteria when discussing prokaryotes but always leave out the much more interesting archaea. Anyway, nice post.
Hey justttryme90, I agree. Archaea are very interesting and besides bacteria and eukaryotes the third living organisms. I felt like focusing between bacteria and viruses. Thanks for the addition
One of the fun stories about archaea that many people may not know is there is not a single species known to be pathogenic (this is not to say there are not any, but we know of a lot of them and none are pathogenic), while with bacteria there are a great number which are harmful to us. I think an interesting post could be made discussing these guys a bit with people, a whole domain of life that most people do not even know exist!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14579252
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201000091/full