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23/12/2021 6:35 pm
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Most living organisms cannot survive at temperatures above 45°C. How are some microbes able to live in habitats with temperatures exceeding 100°C?
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23/12/2021 6:36 pm
Organisms survive at a temperature range of 0° to 40°C or less. However, there are some notable exceptions. Certain microorganisms live in hot springs and deep-sea hydrothermal vents where temperature far exceeds 100°C. They survive at the high temperature due to the occurrence of branched-chain lipids in their cell membrane that reduces the fluidity of cell membranes and the occurrence of the minimum amount of free water in their cells that provides resistance to high temperature.