Ice+Loving

Ice lovers

Did you know that ice lover travel all over the world? Well, today you will learn a lot about how and what ice lovers are. Ice lovers are a type of archaebacteria. Archae are group of single-celled organisms. A single individual or species from this domain is called an archaeon. A word that you will hear frequently n this exhibit; would be Haloquadra Walsbyi which means flat and square-shaped-cells. Archaebacteriah are unicellular cells. Ice lovers are single-celled. They have a cell wall but it is different than other cell walls. Archaebacteria are prokaryotic, which means they have no nucleus. Their feeding habits are not too different. They feed off of other organisms. Some examples are salt-loving, heat-loving, and methane making. Of course there are also ice lovers. They are also called extremeophiles. Ice lovers are archaebacteria that live in extreme weathers. The ice lovers live near ice. These prokaryotes are now recognized as a major part of life on earth and play an important role in carbon and nitrogen cycle. Ice lovers have many different kinds of unique characteristics that make them important. One of those characteristics are they can survive in freezing cold environments. An example of a freezing cold environment that ice lovers live in would be the freezing ice of Antarctica. Since they are able to live in freezing cold environments they are considered extremophilles. The definition for extremophilles is organisms that live in extreme conditions. Lexy, Gabby, Jake, Mandy