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To: allmendream

Archebacteria is a good example of an unrelated class of life.

It has a sulfur electron transport system, instead of oxygen, and is therefore unrelated to all life with an oxygen based electron transport system.

This bacteria lives at deep ocean volcanic vents. I studied it for a bit.


23 posted on 12/01/2010 10:36:17 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Triple
Just because it uses sulfur instead of oxygen is not evidence that it is unrelated to all life with an oxygen based electron transport system.

Are anoxyic bacteria that don't use oxygen at all (and find it quite toxic) unrelated at all to aerobic bacteria? Not according to anybody I have ever read on the subject.

Citation please, and can you address the universal DNA code and variants of the same ubiquitous “housekeeping” genes that are present with variation in ALL living species found upon the Earth?

24 posted on 12/01/2010 10:39:43 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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