Extremophiles
Extremophiles  
Podcast: SciShow Tangents
Published On: Tue Aug 20 2019
Description: Extremophiles are tough little guys that not only survive but thrive in the harshest environments on Earth; unforgiving places like volcanic vents at the bottom of the sea, lakes of acid, and your bellybuttonTo learn more about extremophiles and a whole universe of other microscopic creatures, check out Journey to the Microcosmos at https://www.youtube.com/microcosmosFollow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Single-species Ecosystemhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10336-gold-mine-holds-life-untouched-by-the-sun/Extremophile Cheesehttps://www.businessinsider.com/belly-button-innie-inside-cheese-bacteria-lint-fungi-2019-7Fluffy Pink Golden Fungushttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-discover-fungus-capable-collecting-gold-its-environment-180972293/[Fact Off]Berkeley pit extremophiles:https://medium.com/vision-2018/life-from-the-pit-70d3e0fbc0f6https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEnWZcG3Nzkhttps://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/natural-products/Scientists-mine-potential-drugs-Berkeley/97/i18PCR & Taq polymerase:https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Fact-Sheethttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/probe/docs/techpcr/https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/10342020https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/yellowstone-bacteria-beer-science[Ask the Science Couch]Extremophiles:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4187170/Bacteria vs. Archaea:http://bio1520.biology.gatech.edu/biodiversity/prokaryotes-bacteria-archaea-2/https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaea.htmlArchaea characteristics:https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/astrobiology/environments/https://microbiologyonline.org/about-microbiology/introducing-microbes/archaeahttps://ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaeamm.html[Butt One More Thing]Pompeii worm:https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/marinesymbiosis/pompeii.htmlhttp://faculty.montgomerycollege.edu/gyouth/FP_examples/student_examples/sathya_ramachandran/pompeiiworms.html