Denitrification

What will be an ideal response?


•Strictly anaerobic process, N species used as alternate electron acceptors.
•Nitrate (NO3-) è Nitrite (NO2-) è Nitric Oxide (NO) è Nitrous Oxide (N2O) è Dinitrogen (N2).

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Members of the Archaea differ from members of the Bacteria (or eubacteria) in that only the members of the Archaea have

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In an organism, X, it is found to be impossible to generate loss-of-function mutants for most genes. There is an alternative method of introducing random mutations that can later be screened for the gene(s) in question

This can be accomplished by using insertions due to what structures?

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