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If you took a bacterium living in a stream with 20°C water and placed it in a hot spring with 50°C water, what might happen? It would die because faster reactions would deplete cellular ATP. It would thrive, with more thermal energy to speed reactions. It would die because its enzymes would malfunction at high temperature. It would grow as usual, since temperature has little effect on bacteria.

          If you took a bacterium living in a stream with 20°C water and placed it in a hot spring with 50°C water, what might happen?

It would die because faster reactions would deplete cellular ATP.
It would thrive, with more thermal energy to speed reactions.
It would die because its enzymes would malfunction at high temperature.
It would grow as usual, since temperature has little effect on bacteria.

If you took a bacterium living in a stream with 20°C water and placed it in a hot spring with 50°C water, what might happen?

It would die because faster reactions would deplete cellular ATP.
It would thrive, with more thermal energy to speed reactions.
It would die because its enzymes would malfunction at high temperature.
It would grow as usual, since temperature has little effect on bacteria.

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05/09/2022

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If you took a bacterium living in a stream with 20°C water and placed it in a hot spring with 50°C water, what might happen? It would die because faster reactions would deplete cellular ATP. It would thrive, with more thermal energy to speed reactions. It would die because its enzymes would malfunction at high temperature. It would grow as usual, since temperature has little effect on bacteria.