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Hydrocarbon Metabolism in Organisms | Microbiology

The below mentioned article provides notes on hydrocarbon metabolism in organisms. Hydrocarbons are organic compounds containing carbon and hydrogen. The simplest hydrocarbon is methane (CH4). A host of bacteria can also use other hydrocarbons like alkanes, alkenes, cyclic and aromatic compounds. Alkanes are linear saturated hydrocarbons having the general formula CH3-(CH2)n-CH3, while alkenes are unsaturated linear molecules. Some examples of [...]

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Biology Notes on Autotrophic Metabolism

The below mentioned article provides notes on autotrophic metabolism. Autotrophy generally means the ability of organisms to use inorganic carbon in the form of CO2 as the sole source of carbon for synthesizing organic compounds necessary to build cell components. This ability is also sometimes called carbon-autotrophy to distinguish the ability of some organisms to use molecular nitrogen as the [...]

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Restriction Enzymes (With Diagram) | Microbiology

These are endonucleases which cleave double-stranded DNA molecules at specific sites having a sequence of generally four to six nucleotides. These sites are called restriction sites. A specific restriction enzyme cleaves DNA wherever the site occurs. The nucleotide sequence of the restriction site is specific for each of hundreds of restriction enzymes discovered so far from different microorganisms. A restriction [...]

By |2016-08-31T15:41:59+00:00August 31, 2016|Restriction Enzymes|Comments Off on Restriction Enzymes (With Diagram) | Microbiology
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