While preparing a lab, you remove a culture of prokaryotes from their incubator and place them, still alive, on the bench at 25 degrees Celsius. All die within 2 hours. The culture probably contained which prokaryotes?

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Biology

Aileen Peters

22 June, 17:39

While preparing a lab, you remove a culture of prokaryotes from their incubator and place them, still alive, on the bench at 25 degrees Celsius. All die within 2 hours. The culture probably contained which prokaryotes?

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Thompson · Answer 1

The correct answer will be - Thermophiles

Explanation:

A thermophile is a group of bacteria which are adapted to survive at a high temperature ranging between the 41°C to 110°C.

In the given question, when the culture of bacteria was removed from the incubator which is usually maintained at a high temperature which lies between 70°C to 110°C and the thermophiles were surviving at that temperature.

But when removed from the incubator, they all died as their metabolic reactions were not adapted to thrive in normal conditions.

Thus, thermophiles are the correct answer.