Apply lesson concepts to explain why many prokaryotes are adapted for living at the normal internal temperature of the human body

Many prokaryotes are adapted to live inside the body because the majority of bacteria are mesophilic.

Depending on the optimal temperature of development, there are three types of bacteria:

* Mesophilic bacteria prefer average temperatures between 20 and 40 ° C. The majority of bacteria is mesophilic. This is the case of pathogenic bacteria of man and animals, but also commensal bacteria of natural cavities, cutaneo-mucous membranes and especially saprophytic environmental bacteria involved in the degradation and recycling of dead organic matter. (necromass).

* The psychrophilic bacteria have an optimal temperature of development close to 0 ° C.

* Thermophilic bacteria can live at high temperatures (45 ° C in hot springs).