Thermal vents at bottom of ocean. extreme salt conditions (Great Salt Lake, Dead Sea) ... Brightly colored due to purple pigments (bacteriorhodopsin) ...
Micro-organisms are active in the formation and degradation of minerals in the ... Mesophilic and highly acidophilic (pH 1.5-2.0); Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, ...
Details available on: http://www.biotechnology.uwc.ac.za/teaching/BTY227 ... Euglena was used for years as model system to study photosynthesis, but Euglena ...
The contamination of soil and water with organic and inorganic pollutants is of ... could rapidly biodegrade the aliphatic and aromatic fractions of crude oil. ...
The stocks of oil and coal are uneven in distribution and are being rapidly ... oil, castor oil, or a petroleum-based fuel (Shay, 1993; Machacon et al., 2001) ...
The filter-feeding mussels are known to accumulate heavy metals, making them ... Mediterranean mussel Myttlus galloprovincialis (Regioli and Principato, 1995) ...
Wastewater, Pesticides, herbicides, petrochemicals and products (eg. ... used by oil industry to destroy oily wastes, also used for sludges from sewage ...
... be divided into a number of basic stages- extraction and supply of raw materials; ... by expanding natures repertoire (mutagenesis, molecular evolution etc. ...
Bacterial rhodopsin: Evidence for a new type of phototrophy in the sea. ... They use TTP uptake by rhodopsin/retinal containing vesicles to measure the ...
( denaturation, primer annealing, and DNA polymerization) PCR can be used as a: ... Denature and anneal primer. Enlongation and termination. DNA sequencing (details) ...