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Which unicellular organism can live in the ocean floor or in hot springs?

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Cyanobacteria may be of the unicellular type (e.g., Synechococcus). Various species or varieties of this genus may form biofilms or mats up to a temperature of ∼73 °C in hot springs of western North America and eastern Asia (the Pacific Rim).

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