archaebacteria

IPA: ɑrkibæktˈɪriʌ

considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae

Examples of "archaebacteria" in Sentences

The discovery and analysis of archaebacteria in the 90s opened us more possibilities.
Extremophiles as in archaebacteria seems to be the genetically youngest cell type out there at ~ 1 Ga, see Cavalier-Smith.
Later days DNA has in bacteria and archaebacteria bottlenecked through 70 Celsius, which is roughly the temperature the sediment chert isotopic ratios gives for most of Earth Archaean history.
The "community" found in a South Africa deep mine of a single bacterial species loaded with archaebacteria genes and other stuff it has picked up by gene transfer is an exception that comes to mind.
This paper introduced a new domain of life, archae referred to at the time of publication as archaebacteria, and simultaneously created a new paradigm for understanding the origins of life on earth.
In the neomura theory it was very unlikely that earlier organisms, bacteria, trapped in their non-extremophile yet sturdy protein exoskeleton cell wall, would be able to loose it to develop a new extremophile one (archaebacteria) respectively develop an endoskeleton flexible cell (eukaryotes).
The authors of the study published in Science noted a number of interesting things - a preponderance of genes encoding protein kinases, evidence for substantial horizontal gene flow from bacteria and archaebacteria, and a streamlined core gene expression machinery transcription and RNA processing.