Environmental Biotechnology - Theory and Application

24 Environmental Biotechnology the energy requirements of the cell balanced against the need for certain metabolic intermediates ...

Microbes and Metabolism 25 environment due to the nonpolar nature of the fatty acids forming ‘tails’ on the triacylglycerol. How ...

26 Environmental Biotechnology f ( fat droplet fat droplet fat droplet fat droplet fat droplet Figure 2.7 Biosurfactants amino a ...

Microbes and Metabolism 27 mammals and the fairly insoluble uric acid in the case of birds and most reptiles. Bacteria may then ...

28 Environmental Biotechnology such as glucose, are joined together to form macromolecules, they are called polysaccharides. Exa ...

Microbes and Metabolism 29 It has as the ultimate electron and hydrogen sink, a variety of simple organic compounds including ac ...

30 Environmental Biotechnology Fermentation is therefore an option under conditions where there is an active elec- tron transpor ...

Microbes and Metabolism 31 Electron transport chains: oxidative phosphorylation and methanogenesis As described in the previous ...

32 Environmental Biotechnology transport chain because of the need to organise it topographically, and to allow the establishmen ...

Microbes and Metabolism 33 ATP from ADP and phosphate, as a result of electron transfer from one com- plex to its neighbour. The ...

34 Environmental Biotechnology is nitrate which is converted to nitrite. This is a toxic substance, and so many bacteria have th ...

Microbes and Metabolism 35 oxidised by relinquishing electrons to the cytochromes in the chain thus regener- ating the oxidised ...

36 Environmental Biotechnology development and so is discussed in some detail alongside the related subject of photosynthesis. P ...

Microbes and Metabolism 37 the cycle. Eukaryotes capable of carrying out photosynthesis include higher green plants, multicellul ...

38 Environmental Biotechnology which receive the incident light are clustered in highly organised structures called antennae loc ...

Microbes and Metabolism 39 Figure 2.10 Oxygenic photosynthesis, photorespiration and the Hatch–Slack pathway to NADPH. Both the ...

40 Environmental Biotechnology Figure 2.11 Reactions of photosynthesis sulphide, which is the principal gas responsible for the ...

Microbes and Metabolism 41 electron donors, molecules which have a more negative reduction potential than water and so are easie ...

42 Environmental Biotechnology to form two molecules of 3-phosphoglycerate, an intermediate of glycolysis. This is not the only ...

Microbes and Metabolism 43 level, provides an important avenue for the control of pollution and the mitigation of possible eutro ...