Biodegradation, Biotransformation, and Biocatalysis (B3)

When one adult meets another at a party, they often get to know each other by asking the question, “What do you do?” Translated, this question asks how you earn a living. When a microbiologist meets a newly isolated bacterium for the first time, the initial question is similar: What does it do?

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