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EXTREMEOPHILE [1 record]

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Record 1 2022-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
  • Evolution (Biology)
  • Interplanetary Space Exploration
CONT

[An] extremophile [is] an organism that is tolerant to environmental extremes and that has evolved to grow optimally under one or more of these extreme conditions ...

Key term(s)
  • extremeophile

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
  • Évolution (Biologie)
  • Exploration interplanétaire
CONT

Un organisme est dit extrêmophile lorsque ses conditions de vie normales sont mortelles pour la plupart des autres organismes [...] Beaucoup d'extrêmophiles appartiennent au taxon des archées ou des bactéries, bien qu'il existe aussi des extrêmophiles eucaryotes métazoaires comme les tardigrades.

Spanish

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