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archaebacteria
(redirected from archaea)

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archaebacteria
prokaryotic organisms, distinct from eubacteria, which are found in association with high temperatures or salinity, or are methanogenic. None are pathogens.


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To determine that the archaea were indeed fixing nitrogen, the researchers first incubated the archaeal-bacterial assemblages with a dinitrogen gas, N2, that was composed of two atoms of nitrogen-15.
A chapter is devoted to the flagella and pili of Archaea.
Woese's genetic reclassification of life suggested not only that bacteria and archaea are distinct groups, but also that eukaryotes and archaea are more closely related than bacteria and archaea.
 
 
 
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