• Question: do you know why the Atacama Desert bacteria developed the dark black spores?

    Asked by anon-236375 to David on 12 Mar 2020.
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      David Mark answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      This is a fab question! The current hypothesis is that the colour helps to protect the bacteria from UV rays from the sun (like how we tan to protect our skin)

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