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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by tiny microbes because giant mac

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robes would be just horrifying Alright checking the following passage

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and the image on this stuff from the national oceanic

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and atmospheric administration Know why Okay read the following excerpt

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from paragraph one Life on earth is found in conditions

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ranging from the coldest arctic ice to extremely hot hydrothermal

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systems on the ocean floor Microbes are also found in

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very acidic conditions very salty conditions and very alkaline conditions

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The excerpt above suggests that what And here the potential

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answers All right we love the ones where they give

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us an excerpt of an excerpt less to cram in

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our brains Right anyway it's easy to nick's option a

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based on the excerpt of the excerpt it's definitely not

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safe to assume that all microbe love to live in

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extreme conditions Most microbes that we know prefer quiet houses

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in the country Choice he has to go is well

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the passage doesn't tell us what temperature acidic or alkaline

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environments are supposed to be so we personally prefer are

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acidic alkaline environments at a balmy seventy five degrees Lastly

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will cross off answer d there's Nothing to support the

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idea that microbes that dig one type of extreme environment

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would see a different type of extreme environment as a

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sweet place to be If microbe had evolved to hang

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out helpfully on arctic ice living in a pool of

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acid would probably be an unwelcome change The best answer

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is be the first sentence says that life exists in

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super hot and super cold conditions on earth The second

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sentence says that microbes also live in extremely acidic alkaline

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and salty conditions so it looks like conditions can be

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considered extreme based on factors other than temperature alone A

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pool full of acid is pretty extreme whether it's hot

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or cold we tested it in the shmoop cool and 00:01:50.304 --> [endTime] well we found out the hard way you be

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