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bacteria that eats oil
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What is a bacteria organism that eats dead organism?
bacteria and fungi
How do scientists produce oil-eating bacteria?
When A. borkumensis bacteria use alkanes as their source of energy, each cell forms a biosurfactant (other sources of energy do not cause the bacteria to produce this biosurfactant). A biosurfactant is an extra layer of material forms along the cell membrane. The substances that make up the biosurfactant of A. borkumensis can reduce the surface tension of water, which helps with the degradation of oil. They are also emulsifiers, which further serve to break up the oil/water emulsion, making oil more soluble. A. borkumensis forms a biofilm (a wall of cells) around an oil droplet in seawater and proceeds to use biosurfactants and metabolism to degrade the oil into a water-soluble substance.[4]
Is there one or several flesh eating viruses?
Surprisingly yeas there is a few *flesh eating viruses/bacteria*
What can anaerobic bacteria do to the body?
Makes your stomach crampy after eating.
How do eugelena move?
eugelenas move by eating the bacteria that they fnd the most
How did scientists produce oil eating bacteria?
Inducing mutations in bacteria
What causes the disappearance of oil?
Hydrocarbon eating bacteria
What is the purpose of transgenic bacteria?
To make bacteria with new abilities. Like eating oil.
How did they produce oil eating bacteria?
There are naturally occurring bacteria that can live in or on crude oil They have taken a strain of one of these types and bread it to be more aggressive and oil consuming.
Current topics in bio-technology for poster presentation?
cervical cancer oil eating bacteria to clean oil spills.
How do you get skin diseases?
flesh eating bacteria is spread through close personal contact. butthat does not mean that if you hug someone you will get a flesh eating virus.
What created oil-eating bacteria?
Nature. The oceans have been leaking oil for millennium, and if these organisms didn't exist, every beach in the world would be covered in oil.
Is flesh eating a bacteria or viruses?
bacteria
What is a bacteria organism that eats dead organism?
bacteria and fungi
How do scientists produce oil-eating bacteria?
When A. borkumensis bacteria use alkanes as their source of energy, each cell forms a biosurfactant (other sources of energy do not cause the bacteria to produce this biosurfactant). A biosurfactant is an extra layer of material forms along the cell membrane. The substances that make up the biosurfactant of A. borkumensis can reduce the surface tension of water, which helps with the degradation of oil. They are also emulsifiers, which further serve to break up the oil/water emulsion, making oil more soluble. A. borkumensis forms a biofilm (a wall of cells) around an oil droplet in seawater and proceeds to use biosurfactants and metabolism to degrade the oil into a water-soluble substance.[4]
What kind of bacteria decaying gasoline oils?
Chinese scientists have found a strain called Bacillus cereus DQ01 that digests petrol:http://io9.com/5287359/chinese-scientists-discover-bacteria-eating-up-their-oil
What does bacteria on the ocean floor use to make food?
eating other bacteria
