The term which describes the breaking down of body cells or substance is CATABOLISM.
The metabolic processes which occur in living things are of two types, these are anabolic and catabolic processes. The anabolic process involves the building up of needed materials in the body while the catabolic process involves the breaking down of waste materials in the body in order to eliminate them through excretion.
Answer: The correct option is A
Archae bacteria are extremophiles which thrive in extremely environment.
Explanation:
Extremophiles are organisms that inhabit extreme environments. They thrive in hot niches, ice, and salt solutions. Some of them grow in toxic waste, organic solvents and heavy metals. Extremophiles include members of all domains of life which are bacteria, archea,and eukaryotes. Out of these three members of extremophiles, archea are the main group of microorganisms to thrive in extreme environments. This is because the archea are skilled in adapting to different extreme conditions than bacteria and eukaryotes.
Archea are hyper thermophilic microorganisms.
Bacteria is a unicellular organism which can multiply very fast by binary cell division.
To get a number of divisions required for cell division: you can use the formula: 2

= number of bacteria
To get 256 bacteria:
2

= 256 (you can solve this equation by a calculator)
so:
n = 8 generations
With this formula the first bacteria is taken into consideration since 1 bacteria gives two, then the two give four, then eight, 16...