You boil water that has been extracted from a swamp and find archaea that are still alive. These archaea are most likely ____.
A) halophiles
B) methanophiles
C) photophiles
D) thermophiles
E) chemophiles

Question

​You boil water that has been extracted from a swamp and find archaea that are still alive. These archaea are most likely ____.
A) ​halophiles
B) ​methanophiles
C) ​photophiles
D) ​thermophiles
E) ​chemophiles

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Thermophiles are organisms that thrive at relatively high temperatures, between 41 and 122 degrees Celsius. The fact that these archaea survived boiling water (which is at 100 degrees Celsius) suggests they are adapted to high temperatures, making them thermophiles.

​You Boil Water That Has Been Extracted from a Swamp

You Boil Water That Has Been Extracted from a Swamp