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Your Ad Here	Microbial Diversity – IV (Prokaryotic): Archaea (Archaebacterial) The profound phylogenetic as well as phenotypic differences between Bacteria (true bacteria or eubacteria) and Archaea (archaebacteria) have already been discussed in Chapter 2. At this place, however, the major characteristics, the organisms themselves, and other significances of Archaea (archaebacteria) will be taken into account.
The archaebacterial forms are such microorganisms which are prokaryotic in their cell organization but possess a strikingly different cell-chemistry when compared with the eubacteria. They are genetically as distantly related to eubacteria as both are to eukaryotic organisms. This distinction among the archaebacteria, eubacteria and eukaryotes is so profound that archaebacteria are thought to be given the rank of a new primary kingdom or even the rank of a domain with a completely different status in the history of organisms' classification.
Archaebacteria have become present-days central dogma of microbiological studies because they are being considered as having much significance (i) in relation to the origin and evolution of life, (ii) in determining the nature of life and (iii) in proving good source of alternative energy resources. This aspect will be taken at the end of the chapter.	Your Ad Here

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