BSCI 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Main Source, Planctomycetes, Gammaproteobacteria

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Biological Sciences Program
• Course: BSCI 223
• Professor: mciver

Document Summary

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it , quoted tony blair back in 2005. Well how much concerning this appears, since then, a lot more similar quotes can be added in its reference. We have come together as a team to have a different insight in dealing with this problem through genetic engineering. Rice, which is the staple diet of india and many other countries around the world, is believed to engender many potential green house gases or global warming gases per se like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide, again, is released due to the inevitable use of nitrogen fertilizers which are added in the paddy fields. We are dealing with the conversion of this highly potential global warming gas, nitrous oxide into nitrate form using synthetic biology tools to insert two genes into a bacterial cassette along with its detection systems.