The article by Morell (1996) discusses the sequencing of the genome of Methanococcus jannaschii, an archaean found living three kilometers beneath the Pacific Ocean on the side of a hydrothermal chimney. The sequencing proved that there are actually three domains of life, not just two (prokaryote and eukaryotes) as many believed. These two forms were thought to be descendants of the archaea but the gene sequencing
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