Natural Science Forum / Biology / Microbiology / February 2006

Hello all.I am NOT a biologist but have been fooling with Geochemistry,
searching for oil by examining changes in surface soil over oil
reservoirs.(Iodine, etc..)
Phillips Petroleum came up with a way of culturing soil samples to

In some cases we use KOH to differentiate between gram+ and gram-, but
what is teh component in the gram- cell wall that is being disrupted by
the KOH, is it the peptidoglycan or something else?
Trond Erik

hi to all,
i would like to know about the enzymes from the mushroom,
particularly the protease, laccase, cellulase, and amylase enzyme
estimation and also the steps involved in the purification of those

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Are thre motle fungi?  I thought that motile individuals were
moving via flagella and were bacteria.  What I am dealing with now is
"Google zoospores and you will find that contrary to all other fungus
they are mobile with both amoebic motion and flagella. The info came

I know this is not really the correct place but I am stuggling to find
the answer.
I am interested in human biology and I was wondering if anyone could
help me,

Hi friends, I'm John, new to this group. Can anyone tell me the
objectives of this group?
I will need help from anyone of you. I was discussing an issue with my
prof. and he asked me for the name of the world first scientist and the

When brewing sake, a yeast (Aspergillus oryzae) aerobically converts
starch (rice) into simpler sugars, which are then converted
anaerobically to ethanol by yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae).
Is there a single microbe which can anaerobically ferment starch

I'm confused. My doctor did a urinalysis for my UTI that showed
enterococcus, susceptible to Cipro (as well as Macrobid, penicillin,
and Levaquin). So I'm taking Cipro. However, I've done some research on
the web and found many resources to suggest the fluoroquinolones aren't

I'm one way of the other confused about this topic "microbiology". i
think this topic is actually about smaller organisms. can you please
help better understand this topic cus i sometimes sit wondering about
how these organisms actually work and what are the advantages and

Any one can recommend me some COUNTERSELECTABLE MARKERS for a gram positive
bacteria.
I know SacB is a common one for gram negtive bacteria and can lead to many
useful application.

Are there any experimental data on the dynamics of protein folding ?
(i.e. databases with coordinates of atoms of proteins and their time
dynamics) ?

Yesterday I was staying in internet at least all day, lol. On some site
I found a program for viewing 3d models. It is a new 3D Viewer, `cause
I`ve never heard about it before. I downloaded it and it seems that it
is pretty cool.