• popularly known as nylon-eating bacteria, is a strain of Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens that can digest certain by-products of nylon 6 manufacture. It uses...
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    discovery of nylon-eating bacteria has been used to refute creationist arguments against evolution and natural selection. These bacteria can produce novel...
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  • Paenarthrobacter. Polar lipid profile of this species is an unknown. The nylon-eating bacteria, Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens KI72, is considered by the NCBI database...
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    intervention Nylon-eating bacteria – Species of bacteria Polyamide – Macromolecule with repeating units linked by amide bonds Ripstop nylon – Reinforced...
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  • human-caused conditions are Nylon-eating bacteria: a strain of Flavobacterium that are capable of digesting certain byproducts of nylon 6 manufacturing. There...
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    Microbiological culture Microbivory, an eating behavior of some animals feeding on living microbes Nanobacterium Nylon-eating bacteria Petri dish Staining Budapest...
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    used. Fungi portal Chernobyl disaster § Flora, fauna, and funga Nylon-eating bacteria Plastivore Dadachova, Ekaterina; Casadevall, Arturo (December 2008)...
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  • Microbial corrosion (category Bacteria)
    concrete, and many other materials. Two examples are Nylon-eating bacteria and Plastic-eating bacteria. Fungi can cause microbial corrosion of concrete....
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  • discovery of nylon eating bacteria that produce enzymes only useful for digesting synthetic materials that did not exist prior to the invention of nylon in 1935...
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  • mutation have been observed in recent years, such as the evolution of nylon-eating bacteria which developed new enzymes to efficiently digest a material that...
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    thorough study in 2007 using salmonella on wood, tiles, and nylon carpet, found that the bacteria could thrive under dry conditions even after twenty-eight...
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    class of enzymes, with PDB accession codes 1WYB, 1WYC, and 2DCF. Nylon-eating bacteria Kinoshita S, Terada T, Taniguchi T, Takene Y, Masuda S, Matsunaga...
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    Microbiota (category Bacteria)
    and on all multicellular organisms, including plants. Microbiota include bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi, and viruses, and have been found to be crucial...
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  • there for the fully functional bacteria to eat." His explanation was wrong, but his chance creation of attenuated bacteria resulted in the first intentionally...
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    Ribosome Cell membrane Cell wall Capsule Pili Marine prokaryotes are marine bacteria and marine archaea. They are defined by their habitat as prokaryotes that...
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    living members forming the microbiome. Most microbiome researchers agree bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae, and small protists should be considered as members...
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    cyanobacteria, are collectively called phytoplankton." Microalgae, together with bacteria, form the base of the food web and provide energy for all the trophic levels...
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    Plastic (redirect from Nylon 4)
    containing waste water from a nylon factory discovered a strain of Flavobacterium that digests certain byproducts of nylon 6 manufacture, such as the linear...
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    tract contains the gut microbiota, with some 1,000 different strains of bacteria having diverse roles in the maintenance of immune health and metabolism...
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    dried in the sun to kill any bacteria on it. A nylon cloth appears to work as well but is not as affordable. Continued eating speeds the recovery of normal...
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    found that a single parasite-like immunological challenge, created via a nylon monofilament implant in the beetle, significantly reduced the sexual attractiveness...
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    polyethylene terephthalate (PET)/silicon oxide-coated nylon/CPP (SIOX), Aluminum oxide-coated PET/nylon/CPP (ALOX), and PET/aluminum foil/CPP (FOIL). Retort...
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    microbial mat, free floating cells, or bacteria in an endosymbiotic relationship with animals. Chemolithoautotrophic bacteria derive nutrients and energy from...
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    spoilage. Normally, this drying includes the addition of salt to prevent bacteria growth. The word "jerky" derives from the Quechua word ch'arki which means...
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    are very diverse. They can be single-celled or multicellular and include bacteria, archaea, viruses, and most protozoa, as well as some fungi, algae, and...
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    types of life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. When not inside a cell or in the process of infecting a cell...
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    microbiome with cariogenic bacteria becoming dominant during the Industrial Revolution. Streptococcus mutans is the most important bacteria in causing caries....
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    February 2014. Balster, Lori (27 January 2015). "Discovery of plastic-eating bacteria may speed waste reduction". fondriest.com. Yang, Jun; Yang, Yu; Wu...
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    1126/science.aad6359. PMID 26965627. S2CID 31146235. "Could a new plastic-eating bacteria help combat this pollution scourge?". The Guardian. 10 March 2016....
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    of artefacts are causing the wreck to decay faster. Underwater bacteria have been eating away at the Titanic's steel and transformed it into rust since...
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