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you forget lichen. These guys do not need anything but water and some substrate.
Lichen requires phytobacteria or some algae though right? It’s a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthesizing microbe right?
I was thinking more on the lines of single organisms. I guess if that pair made it to space and came back that’d probably work though