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How do they survive in such an extreme environment?
Halophiles are able to thrive in such high salt environments because they have a special set of genes encoding enzymes for a metabolic pathway that limits osmosis called the methylasparate pathway. They also expend energy to expel salt from their cytoplasm.
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