Definition of "archaebacteria" []

• Plural form of archaebacterium. (noun)

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• "The authors of the study published in Science noted a number of interesting things - a preponderance of genes encoding protein kinases, evidence for substantial horizontal gene flow from bacteria and archaebacteria, and a streamlined core gene expression machinery transcription and RNA processing."
• "In the neomura theory it was very unlikely that earlier organisms, bacteria, trapped in their non-extremophile yet sturdy protein exoskeleton cell wall, would be able to loose it to develop a new extremophile one (archaebacteria) respectively develop an endoskeleton flexible cell (eukaryotes)."
• "Extremophiles as in archaebacteria seems to be the genetically youngest cell type out there at ~ 1 Ga, see Cavalier-Smith."