Halophile vs Extremophile - What's the difference?
halophile | extremophile |
(biology) an organism that lives and thrives in an environment of high salinity, often requiring such an environment; a form of extremophile
(biology) An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, p. 207:
In biology terms the difference between halophile and extremophile
is that halophile is an organism that lives and thrives in an environment of high salinity, often requiring such an environment; a form of extremophile while extremophile is an organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.halophile
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(wikipedia halophile)Noun
(en noun)extremophile
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(wikipedia extremophile)Noun
(en noun)- They had found the world's first extremophiles – organisms that could live in water that had previously been assumed to be much too hot or acid or choked with sulphur to bear life.
