Environmental Biotechnology - Theory and Application

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Environmental Biotechnology Theory and Application Gareth M. Evans Judith C. Furlong University of Durham, UK and Taeus Biotech ...

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Environmental Biotechnology ...

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Environmental Biotechnology Theory and Application Gareth M. Evans Judith C. Furlong University of Durham, UK and Taeus Biotech ...

Copyright 2003 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England Telephone (+44) ...

This book is dedicated with much love to: The late Brother Ramon SSF, friend and mentor, and to the late Ronald and Delcie Furlo ...

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Contents Foreword ix Preface xi Chapter 1 Introduction to Biotechnology Acknowledgements xiii Chapter 2 Microbes and Metabolism ...

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Foreword by Professor Bjørn Jensen Chairman of the European Federation of Biotechnology, Environmental Biotechnology Section and ...

x Foreword There is no doubt that this book will be one of inspiration for all professionals in the field. It is a very good fra ...

Preface This work inevitably sprang out of our environmental biotechnology modules at the University of Durham, but it is not in ...

xii Preface us to delve in deeper detail, while in others it has permitted some of the lesser well-known aspects of this fascina ...

Acknowledgements The authors of any book always owe a debt of thanks to many people. Not in the slightly sycophantic way of the ...

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1 Introduction to Biotechnology TheChambers Science and Technology Dictionarydefines biotechnology as ‘the use of organisms or t ...

2 Environmental Biotechnology natural selection as fundamental. The irony is that Darwin himself rejected muta- tion as too dele ...

Introduction to Biotechnology 3 Some of the potentially most beneficial uses of biological engineering, and which may touch the ...