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Photosynthesizing the Netherlands
This artistic representation of the artist’s love for his home country was made by spreading a single-celled photosynthetic bacterium called Synechococcus elongatus on a plate containing just water and some salt. These bacteria, belonging to a larger phylum of bacteria called cyanobacteria, grow by photosynthesis using little more than sunlight and CO2 and some researchers hope they can be used to produce biofuels and other … Continue reading Photosynthesizing the Netherlands