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    Archaea (/ɑːrˈkiːə/ ar-KEE-ə; sg.: archaeon /ɑːrˈkiːən/ ar-KEE-ən) is a domain of single-celled organisms. These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are...
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  • Archaea is a domain of single-celled organisms. Archaea or archea may also refer to: Archaea (spider), an extinct genus of Archaeidae Archaea (journal)...
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    domains such as Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya, or two domains consisting of Archaea and Bacteria, with Eukarya included in Archaea. In the three-domain...
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    or Asgardarchaeota is a proposed superphylum consisting of a group of archaea that contain eukaryotic signature proteins. It appears that the eukaryotes...
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    classification system that groups all cellular life into three domains, namely Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya, introduced by Carl Woese, Otto Kandler and Mark...
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    the Asgard archaea, and are closely related to the Heimdallarchaeia. This implies that there are only two domains of life, Bacteria and Archaea, with eukaryotes...
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  • The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life is a popular science book written about the domain Archaea. It was written by John L. Howland...
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    Eukaryota. Archaea are further divided into multiple recognized phyla. Archaea and bacteria are generally similar in size and shape, although a few archaea have...
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    are classified into two domains, Bacteria and Archaea. It emerged from development of knowledge of archaea diversity and challenges to the widely accepted...
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    domains of life they can be extremely diverse. Two of the three domains, Archaea and Bacteria, only contain microorganisms. The third domain Eukaryota includes...
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  • Archaea, one of the three domains of life, are a highly diverse group of prokaryotes that include a number of extremophiles. One of these extremophiles...
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    prokaryotes are divided into two domains: Bacteria (formerly Eubacteria) and Archaea (formerly Archaebacteria). Organisms with nuclei are placed in a third...
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    Canada used a system of six kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaebacteria, and Bacteria or Eubacteria), while textbooks in other parts...
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    Cell wall Capsule Pili Marine prokaryotes are marine bacteria and marine archaea. They are defined by their habitat as prokaryotes that live in marine environments...
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    Most prokaryotes are unicellular and are classified into bacteria and archaea. Many eukaryotes are multicellular, but some are unicellular such as protozoa...
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    aerobic process performed by small groups of autotrophic bacteria and archaea. The process of nitrification begins with the first stage of ammonia oxidation...
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    ancient common ancestor. These evolutionary domains are called Bacteria and Archaea. The word bacteria is the plural of the Neo-Latin bacterium, which is the...
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    Archaea is an extinct genus of spiders in the family Archaeidae. As of October 2016[update], four species are placed (or possibly placed) in the genus...
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  • life forms. No form of extraterrestrial life has yet been discovered. Archaea – a domain of single-celled microorganisms, morphologically similar to...
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  • One main characteristic of the three-domain method is the separation of Archaea and Bacteria, previously grouped into the single kingdom Bacteria (a kingdom...
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    DPANN (redirect from Ultra-small archaea)
    DPANN is a superphylum of Archaea first proposed in 2013. Many members show novel signs of horizontal gene transfer from other domains of life. They are...
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  • more empirical in recent years. The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea is a derived publication indexing taxon names from version two of the manual...
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    ancestral cell from which the three domains of life, the Bacteria, the Archaea, and the Eukarya originated. It is suggested to have been a "cellular organism...
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  • a metabolic byproduct in hypoxic conditions. They belong to the domain Archaea and are members of the phylum Euryarchaeota. Methanogens are common in...
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    plants (also including algae and fungi) and prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea), is Latin and binomial in form; this contrasts with common or vernacular...
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    now recognised as archaea. Flat, square-shaped cells of the archaea Haloquadratum walsbyi Methanosarcina barkeri, a marine archaea that produces methane...
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  • hollow structures which resemble tubes that are only found in certain archaea cells. Specifically identifying family members of the Pyrodictium genus...
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    Orania archaea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Subspecies Orania archaea archaea...
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    chemosynthesis (via oxidizing inorganic compounds such as hydrogen sulfide) by archaea and bacteria. Animals evolved in the sea. Lineages of arthropods colonised...
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    Tungsten (section In archaea)
    to occur in biomolecules, being found in a few species of bacteria and archaea. However, tungsten interferes with molybdenum and copper metabolism and...
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