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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various anaerobic archaea that produce methane as a metabolic byproduct.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A type of archaebacteria found in anaerobic environments such as animal intestinal tracts or sediments or sewage, and capable of producing methane; a source of natural gas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of various
archaebacteria capable ofmethanogenesis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun archaebacteria found in anaerobic environments such as animal intestinal tracts or sediments or sewage and capable of producing methane; a source of natural gas
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Examples
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The Mars methane release would, in this scenario, occur when the right climatic conditions arrive for an explosion of the methanogen population, or it could come from a melting of surface ice that then allows subterranean, bacteria-produced methane to escape.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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The Mars methane release would, in this scenario, occur when the right climatic conditions arrive for an explosion of the methanogen population, or it could come from a melting of surface ice that then allows subterranean, bacteria-produced methane to escape.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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The process produces hydrogen, which is then converted into methane by methanogen enzymes.
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Depth related diversity of methanogen Archaea in Finnish oligotrophic fen.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Isolation and identification of methanogen-specific DNA from blanket bog peat by PCR amplification and sequence analysis.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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This seems natural, as early organisms are unlikely to be sturdy and also unlikely to utilize oxygen as needed in aerobic methylothrophy/methanotrophy and the related methanogen metabolism as oxygen atmospheres are products of biospheres.
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To summerize: If your methanogen has a hincapie then your armstrong will burp more methane.
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Sounds, Sasquatch, Stupidity, and Specters BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Today, the first map of a rumen methanogen DNA sequence was published in the journal PLoS One, giving scientists worldwide a major new opportunity to identify methods for cutting from cows.
ScreenTalk 2010
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Today, the first map of a rumen methanogen DNA sequence was published in the journal PLoS One, giving scientists worldwide a major new opportunity to identify methods for cutting from cows.
ScreenTalk 2010
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Today, the first map of a rumen methanogen DNA sequence was published in the journal PLoS One, giving scientists worldwide a major new opportunity to identify methods for cutting from cows.
ScreenTalk 2010
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