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Most living organisms cannot survive at ...

Most living organisms cannot survive at tempreture above `45^@`. How are some microbes able to live in habitats with temperatures exceeding `100^@`?

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Microbes are able to survinve at high temperature through
(i) Occurrence of branched chain of lipids in the cell membrane that reduce fluidity of cell membrane.
(ii) Development of heat tolerant enzyme which deals with the high temperature.
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