# Archaea

- Different from [[bacteria]] in the generation of the cell membrane
- All prokaryotic
- More closely related to [[eukarya]] than [[bacteria]]
- Newer findings imply that [[Lokiarchaeota]] are closer than the
[[TACK Supergroup]] to [[eukarya]]
- Vast majority are non-extremophile

## Taxonomy

- [[Archaea]]
  - [[Euryarchaeota]]
  - [[Proteoarchaeota]]
    - [[TACK Supergroup]]
      - [[Korarchaeota]]
      - TC MRCA
        - [[Thaumarchaeota]]
        - [[Crenarchaeota]]
    - [[Lokiarchaeota]]
      - Loki1/Loki2
      - Loki3/[[Eukarya]]

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[bacteria]: bacteria "Bacteria"
[Lokiarchaeota]: lokiarchaeota "Lokiarchaeota"
[TACK Supergroup]: tack-supergroup "TACK Supergroup"
[Archaea]: archaea "Archaea"
[Euryarchaeota]: euryarchaeota "Euryarchaeota"
[Korarchaeota]: korarchaeota "Korarchaeota"
[Thaumarchaeota]: thaumarchaeota "Thaumarchaeota"
[Crenarchaeota]: crenarchaeota "Crenarchaeota"
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