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The relationship between deeply diverging clades showing a wide range of growth temperatures and the evolution of thermophily and psychrophily.
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Evolution is the change in the general characteristics of the species over several generations by the process of natural selection. Archaea is a group of microorganisms that are prokaryotic in nature but are different from bacteria. They inhabit extreme climatic conditions. Archaea are classified into three phyla: Crenarchaeota, Thaumarchaeota, and Euryarchaeota.
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