Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth

The speed of a reaction is called its kinetics, which is distinct from but just as important as thermodynamics.

When ΔG is negative, energy is available for life.

Every living thing gets energy from somewhere and uses that energy to perform activities that change its environment. If we put energy and activity together, we get thermodynamics.

for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool. Voilà, you now have a list of the genes in the database that are most closely related to these two genes. The top hit should be these sequences exactly since I have already submitted them to the database. After that, I’m guessing you’ll get a bunch of 16S rRNA gene sequences that other researchers have pulled

Type “NCBI blast” into your internet search engine, choose the top hit, choose Nucleotide BLAST or blastn, copy one or both of the entire gene sequences above, paste them under Enter Query Sequence, and press the button that says BLAST, which stands