Bacteria is the most abundant life form in the ocean, and arguably one of the most important as well; they dominate the earth's carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles! In the ocean, bacteria can be found in two drastically different domains: Archaea and Prokarya-- kingdoms Archaebacteria and Eubacteria (or Monera).
Archaebacteria are not very common, infact they live in very specific environments terrestrially or marine. they live in places of incredibly high temperature or salinity; they are often referred to as extremophiles for that very reason. Eubacteria is the typical bacteria one might think of in the ocean; ones that are germy, decompose, and all that jazz. Those are mostly the heterotrophic bacteria of the ocean; the autotrphic marine eubacteria are oxygen and sulfur producing.
Archaebacteria are not very common, infact they live in very specific environments terrestrially or marine. they live in places of incredibly high temperature or salinity; they are often referred to as extremophiles for that very reason. Eubacteria is the typical bacteria one might think of in the ocean; ones that are germy, decompose, and all that jazz. Those are mostly the heterotrophic bacteria of the ocean; the autotrphic marine eubacteria are oxygen and sulfur producing.
We'll be looking at marine eubacteria.