Despite being in the same category of prokaryotes, archaea and bacteria show variances in their genetic makeup, as the metabolic pathways, and other enzymes, genes possessed by the archaea closely resembles eukaryotes rather bacteria. Simple, microscopic, ambiguous microorganisms mark their presence universally, whether its deep in water, high temperature, soil or any extreme conditions. The evolving history of these cells is considered to be old as more than 3.5 billion years ago. Archaea and bacteria are the representatives of the prokaryotes and belong to the kingdom Monera. Archaea are considered to be the most primitive or ancient forms of life and denote the close relations to the first cells, which is deemed to arise about many years ago on earth. They were earlier classified as bacteria only and obtained name as “archaebacteria”, but due to the presence of certain unique features, they are now termed as ‘archaea’. They are inhabitants of very extreme environments.
Although like bacteria, which occupies the more significant part of the kingdom and are commonly found in the environment, archaea are also single-celled, lacking multicellularity, ranging in few micrometres. These essential differences and similarities are discussed in this content, with a brief description of them.
1. The energy flow takes place via food chain and food web. During the process of energy flow in the ecosystem, plants being the producers absorb sunlight with the help of the chloroplasts and a part of it is transformed into chemical energy n in the process of photosynthesis.
2. This means that they form a kind of cycle. The extinction of one organism can cause a ripple effect that impacts all of the species involved in that food web. This means that one organism would destabilize the whole food web. The extinction of a keystone specie might force all the organisms to adapt, because this specie is one whose presence and activities strongly affect other species. In other cases the ecosystem is the one that adapts to the lack of the organism. The extinction of species with a strong interaction in the food web occur more often that the others that do not have much interaction. In some cases the food web would be affected because some animals would not have a source of food, therefore they would not have energy. That way they would have to find another way to get the food or in extreme cases they could also get extinct. An example is like the one in the picture, if the phytoplankton dies or decreases its number, its consumers would decrease their number as well, eventually the decrease of a very tiny organism would end up to the extinction of a large organism such as the killer whale or elephant seal.
This could help the elephant population rebuild by taking away some of its (predators). Elephants are a keystone species because they dig watering holes, which all animals need. You increase the number of elephants, you increase water availability.
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The two regions of the lipid bilayer allow for selective permeability (very important for the membrane & overall cell)