Talmudic Question #121
by Caroline Laudermilch
Which tend to have the greatest host range, viruses or pathogenic bacteria?
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Talmudic Question #127
Why are not all bacteria motile?
Talmudic Question #66
What if someone found an organism whose genes assignation is 1/3 bacterial, 1/3 archaeal, and 1/3 unknown?
Talmudic Question #78
Why are there so many species of microbes on earth?
Talmudic Question #23
Methanogenesis is characteristic of Archaea (and, according to some, plants as well). Why don't bacteria make methane? (Courtesy of David Lipson).
Talmudic Question #33
Imagine that we could completely get rid of the microbial biofilms found on all natural surfaces, including rocks and soil particles in and out of water. I don't mean by scrubbing each one with a brush, but by some equally implausible process. What would be the consequences for the biogeochemical cycles of the planet?
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by Elio — Students in Integrative Microbiology, a graduate course taught jointly by the University of California at San Diego and the San Diego State University, could fulfill an assignment by optionally answering either one of two specified Talmudic Questions. Their answers are now posted...
