purple bacteria

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purple bacteria - free-living Gram-negative pink to purplish-brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll

phototrophic bacteria, phototropic bacteria - green and purple bacteria; energy for growth is derived from sunlight; carbon is derived from carbon dioxide or organic carbon

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eubacteria eubacterium phototrophic bacteria phototropic bacteria true bacteria			Donohue's lab is working with purple bacteria that use photosynthesis to produce hydrogen from a combination of cellulosic feedstocks and sunlight. Bacteria may power tomorrow's energy needs by Asian News International Ian Mercer of University College Dublin, along with researchers at Imperial College London, flashed a light-absorbing protein from purple bacteria with a series of pulses lasting less than one ten-thousandth of a billionth of a second each. Living physics: from green leaves to bird brains, biological systems ... by Gaidos, Susan / Science News From Leeds University, where he graduated in biochemistry, Carr advanced to Trinity College, Oxford, researching the metabolism of purple bacteria. OBITUARY: Noel Carr by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)			purity Purkinje Purkinje cell Purkinje fiber Purkinje network Purkinje's cells Purkinje's system Purkinje's tissue purl purl stitch purler purlieu purlieus purlin Purling purloin purloiner purloo puromycin Purparty purple purple amaranth purple anise purple apricot purple avens purple bacteria purple beech Purple bird purple boneset purple chinese houses purple clematis purple clover purple commander Purple copper ore purple cress purple emperor purple finch purple forces purple fringeless orchid purple fringeless orchis purple gallinule purple grackle purple granadillo purple ground cherry Purple Heart purple heather purple loco purple locoweed purple loosestrife purple martin purple medic			puromycin puromycin puromycin PURP PURPA Purparty Purparty Purpe PURPL purple purple purple purple purple Purple (color) Purple (color) Purple (color) Purple (colour) Purple (colour) Purple (colour) Purple Acid Phosphatase purple amaranth purple and yellow purple anise purple apricot Purple ash Purple asparagus Purple asparagus Purple asparagus purple avens purple bacteria Purple Barrels purple beech Purple bird Purple bits in digital photos purple blende purple blotch purple boneset Purple Book Purple Book purple boundary Purple Car Purple cauliflower Purple cauliflower Purple cauliflower purple chinese houses Purple City Byrd Gang Purple City Kings purple clematis purple clover purple clover purple clover Purple cockle Purple Colt's-foot purple commander Purple coneflower Purple coneflower Purple coneflower Purple copper ore Purple copper ore purple cress

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