Thermus aquaticus

Thermus aquaticus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Deinococcota
Class: Deinococci
Order: Thermales
Family: Thermaceae
Genus: Thermus
Species:
T. aquaticus
Binomial name
Thermus aquaticus
Brock & Freeze, 1969

Thermus aquaticus is a species of bacteria that can tolerate high temperatures, one of several thermophilic bacteria that belong to the Deinococcota phylum. It is the source of the heat-resistant enzyme Taq DNA polymerase, one of the most important enzymes in molecular biology because of its use in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification technique.


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