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Microbes
Microbial Mats
Microbials and Ecosystems
Early Earth
Extraterrestrial Planets
100
This is another word for "microbe."
What is micro-organism.
100
Microbial mats are less than this amount in length.
What is 5 ml?
100
This is a type of bacteria that produces almost all the oxygen on earth in the oceans.
What is cyanobacteria?
100
For about 3 billion years, all organisms were microbes, or micro-organisms during this eon.
What is the Precambrian eon?
100
This is a branch of astrobiology that searches for life beyond earth.
What is exobiology?
200
This is the study of microbes.
What is microbiology.
200
Microbial mats can be found in this climate range.
What is -40 degrees celsius to 120 degrees celsius?
200
In an ecosystem this is a type of microbe that is the most important microbe for plant decomposition.
What is fungi?
200
Microbes like bacteria, algae and fungi have been identified to be up to this many years old.
What is 220 million years?
200
This is the study of the past, present and future of life in the whole universe.
What is astrobiology?
300
This man first discovered microbiology and microbes
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
300
Fossil evidence suggests that microbial mats originated around this time.
What is 3,500 million years ago?
300
Microbes impact the ecosystem by “fixing” this from the atmosphere into a usable form.
What is nitrogen?
300
Horizontal gene transfer and this allowed microbes to evolve at a much higher rate in evolution. This process is important in medicine today.
What is a high mutation rate
300
This is a newly-discovered planet that is believed to be inhabitable.
What is Kepler?
400
This is a type of microbe that are bacteria-like creatures that have traits that are not found in any true bacteria.
What is archaea?
400
Microbial mats are currently being studied for their potential use of cleaning up this.
What is an oil spill?
400
This is a type of fungus, or microbe, that associates with vascular plants in order to give more access to nutrients.
What is Mycorrhizal fungi?
400
Roughly 3.5 billion years ago, simple-celled microbes were this.
What are prokaryotes?
400
Life has been discovered on how many these other planets.
What is zero.
500
This is another type of microbe that is not often considered to be a "true" living organism.
What is a "virus"?
500
The development of this liberated microbial mats from having to utilize hypothermal vents for energy to survive.
What is photosynthesis?
500
Microbial mats can be found in various tidal zones such as here.
What is the Sippewisett salt marsh?
500
Early microbes were first responsible for breathing life into here.
What is the ocean?
500
Broad is to BLANK as specific is to BLANK.
What is astrobiology and exobiology?