different between extremophile vs crenarchaeote

English

From extreme +? -o- +? -phile.

extremophile (plural extremophiles)

(ecology) 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:
  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.

crenarchaeote (plural crenarchaeotes)

Any of very many marine archaea, of the phylum Crenarchaeota, many of which are extremophiles

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