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What does psychrophilic mean?

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  1. Capable of living at relatively low temperature; used especially of certain bacteria.
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Psychrophilic bacteria: an organism which grows optimally at or below 15oC, which has an upper limit for growth at ca. 20oC, and which has a lower limit of growth of 0oC or lower.
Kinetics of psychrophilic anaerobic sequencing batch reactor treating flushed dairy manure.
This wide range of conditions contributes to the diversity of halophile barophilic, alkaliphilic, and psychrophilic characteristics in addition to their obligate halophilicity.
Psychrophilic enzymes are present in psychrophiles, organisms that have adapted to very cold climates, such as those microorganisms living in the Artic and Antarctic regions.
Meanwhile, Earth-dwelling extremophile microorganisms, both thermophilic and psychrophilic, are variously adapted to temperatures that would fry us or freeze us.
The majority of psychrophilic bacteria are in the gram-negative genera Pseudomonas, Flavobacterium, Achromobacter, and Alcaligenes.

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