Sentences with phrase «because archaea»

That's because archaea eat hydrogen and turn it into methane, so they «hide» the hydrogen the bacteria are producing.

Not exact matches

But the dearth of studies on skin archaea is not just because of technical limitations.

But it's hard to tell apart genes that are truly ancient and those that merely appear ancient because bacteria and archaea have swapped them.

The archaea, single - celled organisms confused with bacteria until Dr. Woese's discovery, are of interest to biologists studying the origin of life because they have certain primitive features and a liking for extreme environments, like the boiling springs of Yellowstone National Park and the superheated waters that swirl from deep - sea volcanoes.

Presumably because of sideways gene traffic in the distant past, both archaea and eukarya seem to rely on bacterial - type genes to manage much of their general chemical metabolism.

Other theories hold that the prokaryotes that gave rise to early eukaryotes were probably from the Domain Archaea, both because of several key characteristics and because DNA sequence comparison suggest that archaeans are more closely related to the eukaryotes than are eubacteria.

Archaea are not only interesting because of this uncovered diversity, they also play a major role in understanding the evolution of cell complexity.

The second is a methane producing archaea, which is associated with more constipation because its byproducts will temporarily paralyze some of the nerves in the small intestine, inhibiting motility, or movement.

You want the microbes that live in your gut (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, etc.) to be diverse because 70 percent of the immune system dwells there, and you need it to protect you when the light switches are on.