Question

dead sea are home to which of the following groups of organism. a) Halophiles b) Thermophiles c) Halophytes d) Phytoplanktons​

Answer 1

d) phytoplanktons

is the answer

Answer 2

Dead Sea are home to halophile

Explanation:

• Deep sea has high amount of salinity in lake.

• Halophile is that group of organism that survive or adapt in the high salinity  of water.

• Halophile organism is found to live at the bottom of this deep sea.

• Growth of organism at high salinity  enhance at increasing pressure.

• Pressure directly influence the metabolism of organism
• Halophile example Halorubrum lacusprofundi can tolerate high range of salinity.
• For adapting the high salinity environment the organism should have same osmotic pressure as sea