Golden Archaea
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, New Species, Podcast, SciClips on 08 28th, 2007 | no responses
Photo courtesy of K. Knittel and A. Boetius
Life used to fit into two categories. Plant or animal. Then we got complicated. Now we have three domains for all life. Bacteria, eukaryotes (plants, people and everything in between) and archaea. Archaea looks like a bacteria but its DNA is different. Now from the depths of Canada comes proof that archaea has been around for billions of years.
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