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| Thermus aquaticus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Deinococcota |
| Class: | Deinococci |
| Order: | Thermales |
| Family: | Thermaceae |
| Genus: | Thermus |
| Species: | T. aquaticus
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| Binomial name | |
| Thermus aquaticus Brock & Freeze, 1969
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| Type strain | |
| YT-1 | |
Thermus aquaticus is a species of bacteria that can tolerate high temperatures, one of several thermophilic bacteria that belong to the Deinococcota phylum. It is the source of the heat-resistant enzyme Taq DNA polymerase, one of the most important enzymes in molecular biology because of its use in the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) DNA amplification technique.