Multiplication of live at temperatures this low has not been described before. A DNA analysis suggests that many of the bacteria are closely related to known species of psychrophilic bacteria and still others are related to Deinococcus . Minus 17 degrees Celsius is very very cold. Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius. Yet these bacteria have found ways to survive and even grow.
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