How well do you think bioremediation achieves the goal of cleaning up pollution? Your claim should be well explained and backed up with logical reasoning and facts. Support you answer with evidence about the success of genetic technology in manipulating bacterial characteristics, and historical facts about oil spill clean-ups in other parts of the world using the bioremediation process.

How well do you think bioremediation achieves the goal of cleaning up pollution? Your claim should be well explained and backed up with logical reasoning and facts. Support you answer with evidence about the success of genetic technology in manipulating bacterial characteristics, and historical facts about oil spill clean-ups in other parts of the world using the bioremediation process.

Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)

5th Edition

ISBN:9781305117396

Author:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

Publisher:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

Chapter13: Early Life Forms And The Viruses

Section: Chapter Questions

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