Extremophile Organisms
Below are links to web sites that discuss various aspects of the Extremophile organisms. You do not have to read everything below; just find what works for you and use it.Your assignment is to gathering information from these web pages, or their links, and in one page or so (typewritten) explain to someone who knows nothing about them, what extremophiles are, why they are important biologically and geologically, and what bearing they have on understanding the origins of life. Scienific American article XLife - General Index XLife - Other Extreme Earth Life Your Ancestors may have been Martial Extremophiles The Search for Extremophiles on Earth and Beyond. What is extreme here may be just business-as-usual elsewhere. Introduction to the Archaea Triumph of the Archaea Extremophiles The Ultramarathoners of the Microbe World Life in Extreme Environments If life can exist somewhere - it will Return to Biology/Geology 350 - Invertebrate Paleontology |