BSCI 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Microorganism, Global Warming

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

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Nitrous oxide contaminates the world s atmosphere as a warming has problematic a large with this greenhouse gas. We are proposing the genetic engineering of nitrogen fixating genes to an organism reduce this toxic component to need of fertilizers as the available. Since cows will they will pass as a fertilizer containing up nitrogen. nitrate. Cow manure can be used with the new added component of nitrogen, past fertilizers nitrous oxide will no longer have to be an option as plants can take. Green house gases emitted from nitrous oxide containing fertilizers will be eliminated. increasingly as years pass, contribution to to. First, nosz converts nitrous oxide to nitrogen, and nif converts nitrogen into nitrate- which is healthy for a plant to take up as a nutrient source. biology to combine two different genes: nif (from m. capsulatus) and nos (from p. In order for e. coli to take up these genes,