Team:Queens Canada/Project/Rationale
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- | <regulartext> | + | <regulartext> Currently there are effective bacterial systems for the degradation of many toxic by-products, but these bacteria cannot move significant distances in the environment to seek out their bio-degradation substrates. The nematode worm <i>Caenorhabditis elegans’</i> has many advantages: </regulartext><p> |
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+ | <regulartext><b>Chemotaxis Movement-</b>Robust chemotaxis network represents a system that can be engineered for the detection and long-range movement towards environmental toxins </regulartext><p> | ||
+ | <regulartext><b>Multi-Cellular=Multiple Processes-</b> As a eukaryote, many processes can be included at the same time in multiple lcoations. </regulartext><p> | ||
+ | <regulartext><b>Hardy Organism-</b> Preliminary tests showed <i> C. elegans </i> able to live in pure bitumen (from Oil Sands) for over a week.</regulartext><p> | ||
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