Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Hot springs tell otherwise
Going through research on microbes, one can think that microbes came from one type of microbes that evolved into the many types that are found to today and many that have yet to be discovered. Little do we know that each microbe can change each generation. The fact that they are able to migrate from habitat to habitat and suite it self with with what it needs to survive in such environment. A quote that many biologist live by and follow is, "everything is everywhere."
A microbiologist by the name of Rachel J. Whitaker from the university of California was doing discoveries to prove the quote wrong. Yet in fact, it is so true it was almost impossible for her to back her theory up with facts. Then she asked herself, "why not check the hot springs?" That place is so dangerous, one bad step and it could cause serious harm. So as she was stepping on top of the geyser, she had a stick to grab some samples and move fast while still being careful to take the sample to the lab as soon as possible and found extraordinary things. The fact that the microbes that live in hot springs have adopted to the extreme hot environment, they also move to slow to migrate to other habitats; which shows that if they leave for a couple of minutes even seconds they could die.
The idea that many scientists believed that all organisms are simple one, she showed that to be not so true as many thought it was. It shows that there is so much diversity between each microbe, by the time we even get to half, we would go back down to a quarter or less.
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article url: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/science/microbes-in-hot-springs-test-notion-of-global-travel.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry23%23%2Fmicrobes
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