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| 1. Look up the term extremophile on a search engine. Find examples of microbes that have adapted to various extremes. Report any species that exist in several extremes simultaneously.
2. Find a website that discusses the use of microbes living in high temperatures to bioremediate (clean up) the environment.
3. Research the Rio Tinto River in Spain. What kinds of microbes dominate in this habitat?
4. Log onto http://www.pfiesteria.org/pfiesteria/index.html Research the methods used by the laboratory to quantify microbes in water samples. 5. Search in one or both websites listed to discover some very interesting symbiotic relationships: http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/moviegallery/pondscum.html http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/Introduction04.pdf |