People always talk about bacteria when discussing prokaryotes but always leave out the much more interesting archaea. Anyway, nice post.
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People always talk about bacteria when discussing prokaryotes but always leave out the much more interesting archaea. Anyway, nice post.
Hey justttryme90, I agree. Archaea are very interesting and besides bacteria and eukaryotes the third living organisms. I felt like focusing between bacteria and viruses. Thanks for the addition
One of the fun stories about archaea that many people may not know is there is not a single species known to be pathogenic (this is not to say there are not any, but we know of a lot of them and none are pathogenic), while with bacteria there are a great number which are harmful to us. I think an interesting post could be made discussing these guys a bit with people, a whole domain of life that most people do not even know exist!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14579252 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201000091/full