MICROBIOLOGY ON KRONOS
The planet Kronos is a rather young planet when you consider the age of other life bearing celestial bodies and is estimated to be about 3.3 billion years old.
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Life began on Kronos nearly 2.8 billion years ago in the bowels of its deepest oceans where the water is believed to exceed 500º Fahrenheit and the absence of light compounded with the absence of oxygen and nitrogen created the perfect milieu for the planet's earliest life forms called Hysus. |
Over millions of years, Hysus began to rise into cooler depths from their hydrothermal vents and slowly began to evolve into aerobic bacteria. The atmosphere on Kronos had stabilized and oxygen became abundant thus allowing for life to flourish in various microenvironments which eventually spread onto land.
| Development and Adaptation |
Nemori |
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From Hysus came other forms of life through
evolution. Marine fossils indicate that an aerobic bacteria named
Nemori became tolerant of cooler ocean temperatures and attached itself into
clumps. Over time these clumps floated along ocean currents eventually
reaching shallow depths and the shorelines of Melea, Robea and Sulea.
Their stay in each different ocean depth and land enabled them to adapt to
each micro environment thus creating new species through the process of
adaptation. |
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Hysus and Nemori were the forerunners of life until Nemori evolved into Microbea, Zule and Protisitia. These primitive species found their niches in various ocean depths after being carried away by its currents. These microscopic organisms traveled throughout the seas absorbing organic compounds found in saline water. |
| All life on Kronos is carbon based and it is believed that the DNA of all life is comprised of the same amino acids (guanine, adenine, cytosine, and thymine) as those found in life forms on Earth. The question that one is compelled to ask is how can life on Kronos and Earth be so similar? Since all organisms are composed of this DNA structure, they replicate themselves thus producing new combination rungs of amino acids that result in a variety of species. Each organism is instinctively programmed to fight for survival and it is in behavior that we can see the theories of natural selection and the survival of the fittest in action. |
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Senses and Behavior
These primitive organisms use their flagella to move towards food and away from
harm. These are not behaviors that are learned but rather are innate.
In addition, they release toxins as a mode of self defense and evolved a light
sensor because they eat plants. This particular defense has facilitated
these organisms to seek out light and move into the various depths of the oceans
found on Kronos.
