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Accelerating Discovery
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Accelerating Discovery

by Scott Spangler
September 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
292 pages
8h 43m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Content preview from Accelerating Discovery
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Chapter 19
Example: Finding
Microbes to Clean
Up Oil Spills
Scott Spangler, Zarath Summers, and Adam Usadi
T
    with millions of microbial species in a vast
soup of life. Some microbes are “aerobic,” meaning they require oxy-
gen for respiration in order to metabolize nutrients. Other microbes are
“anaerobic,” meaning they use other atoms as electron acceptors dur-
ing respiration, hence they can live in places that are depleted of oxygen.
Furthermore, some of these microbes can metabolize hydrocarbons—
the stu of crude oil. Crude oil can be an environmental pollutant, both
through the natural seepage of small amounts that accu ...
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ISBN: 9781482239140