Saunvare
Saunvare is a planet with life, but is uninhabitable by humans except for on high peaks. Its temperatures are very warm compared with Earth, with an average global temperature around 51 degrees Celsius (124°F). Most of its life is bizarrely unlike our own, with a variety of adaptations to the extreme global heat.
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Climate
Lifeforms
Domains
Saunvare has four main domains of life, two of which have multicellular creatures within them.
Bacterons
All bacterons are unicellular, have few organelles, and use DNA to code genetic information. They are generally small, simple cells which live mainly high in the atmosphere, on mountain peaks, and in polar regions due to the temperatures of the tropics being so high as to denature DNA, especially in deserts. A few species of bacterons can function properly with single-stranded DNA, but they have much smaller genomes than those with double-stranded DNA.
Archaeaons
Archaeaons are similar to bacterons in that they also are unicellular and have few organelles. But, they use RNA to store genetic information and perform enzymatic work. They often have few proteins but these proteins are consistent across species as they are used in processing waste. They exist in a variety of environments toxic to all higher life on Saunvare and are the main source of Saunvare's large proportions of methane in its atmosphere.
