A bacterial conversion system is one that transforms organic materials into useable products. The reason why scientists are thinking about using Kocuria rhizophila for this future bioconversion system is because it has a very small genome, and rapid growing at a high cell density. The genome size is 2,697,540 base pairs and 70% was the G+C content (3). The high G+C percentage indicates that the bacterium is very stable. This is because guanine and cytosine form 3 hydrogen bonds with each other, compared to 2 hydrogen bonds formed between adenine and thymine. So it takes more energy to denature a
A bacterial conversion system is one that transforms organic materials into useable products. The reason why scientists are thinking about using Kocuria rhizophila for this future bioconversion system is because it has a very small genome, and rapid growing at a high cell density. The genome size is 2,697,540 base pairs and 70% was the G+C content (3). The high G+C percentage indicates that the bacterium is very stable. This is because guanine and cytosine form 3 hydrogen bonds with each other, compared to 2 hydrogen bonds formed between adenine and thymine. So it takes more energy to denature a