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An extremophile is an organism that can live in extreme conditions such as high temperatures, high pressures and high acidity.
An example of an extremophile is Giant tube worms. They live miles b...

Stomata can be thought of as gates. This is why the size of the guard cells is so important. How the guard cells change in size is a simple matter of how much fluid they can hold - their turgor. Osmosi...

Firstly, antibiotic resistance has to be gained by a bacterium through the mutation of a gene. This can occur due to, for example, the overuse of antibiotics or failure to complete a full course of ant...