How to Use archaea in a Sentence

archaea

plural noun

• Called archaea, the microbes may be the ancestral link between complex and single-celled life.
  — Danielle Hall, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2010
• The first such advance was the identification of archaea.
  — David P. Barash, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• But by 2015, the researchers had isolated an intriguing new species of archaea.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
• The point of contention is over tiny trace amounts of DNA found in the pool that belong to a category of life called archaea, or archaebacteria.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2019
• The evidence of life found in Ethiopia is DNA from archaea, an organism similar to bacteria.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2019
• In some ponds, microbes known as archaea thrived, the researchers report today in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 Oct. 2019
• Pyroaerobiology, a new field of science with a badass name, seeks to understand how colonies of bacteria, fungi, archaea, and viruses are swept up in smoke.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
• After several years of analyzing the samples, Thomas’s team found archaea buried within the sediment.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 5 June 2019
• The remainder is distributed among fungi, archaea, protists, animals and viruses, in that order.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• That’s because microbes like bacteria and archaea coat surfaces in a sticky layer, a biofilm, that functions as a chemical and physical come-hither call for larger creatures such as barnacles and coral, Dr. Hamdan said.
  — Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2020
• Billions of years ago the single-celled common ancestor of all life on earth split into bacteria and archaea, according to evolutionary theory.
  — Prachi Patel, Scientific American, 13 July 2018
• Most of the lifeforms discovered are bacteria and other single-cell microorganisms, such as archaea, but their sheer mass equals roughly 15 to 23 billion tonnes of carbon—more than humanity's total imprint on the surface.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2018
• Two other types of microfossils had the same carbon ratios as microbes known as archaea that depend on methane as their energy source—and that played a pivotal role in the development of multicellular life.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 18 Dec. 2017
• As the evolutionary story is usually told, first came the prokaryotes: the archaea and bacteria, which are often envisioned as simple bags of enzymes without an intricate structure.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2019
• Although the two microbial groups were only distantly related, the gene transfer allowed the researchers to use the cyanobacteria family tree and its fossils to more accurately date the molecular-clock data for the archaea.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2018
• Moreover, Schleper said, the methods used to survey microbial diversity aren’t well suited to detecting archaea in general.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2015
• The other three would match up with an interesting pair: methane-producing archaea and methane-consuming bacteria.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2018
• Bacteria were more prevalent than eukaryotes and archaea, although this finding could be biased by the relative lack of eukaryotic sequences in public databases.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• Specialized tools were designed to collect samples by inserting a brass cylinder into a cow’s mouth and pulling fluid from the rumen where the scientists could see a pool of protozoa, fungi, bacteria, archaea, and DNA crucial to the experiment.
  — National Geographic, 3 July 2019
• Bacteria form one domain; their close relatives, archaea, form another.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2018
• Once software had assembled the short sequences of the original survey into longer fragments, the researchers checked for gene similarities to identify whether the fragment came from bacteria, complex cells, archaea, or viruses.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
• Collectively, this consortium of bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses are called our microbiota.
  — Michelle Sconce Massaquoi, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024