Genetic response of microbes to extreme challenges.

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Bacteria are capable of surviving in a wide range of seemingly impossible situations. In the main part this is because very large numbers of individual cells are involved, so that even very rare mutations will occur often enough to solve most acute problems and permit growth. But in addition, bacteria have evolved in an environment that has fluctuated so often in the past that they may have evolved a group of...

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