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RE: The Changing Face of Our Oceans Part 13: Underwater Mining 1

in #geology7 years ago

It's so frustrating that people to continue to try and actively seek resources in such fragile environments. As I understand we owe a lot of our modern molecular biology to the enzyme found in bacteria of one of these vents (Taq polymerase).

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The Taq polymerase is super cool! If I knew more about molecular biology I'd probably do a post on it, but, alas...