Create a Bacterial-Human Symbiotic Relationship Between Chemolithotrophic Bacteria & Humans or Splice Their Glucose Producing Genes Into Ours?
Maryellen Elizabeth Hart
Master of Science Curriculum & Instruction Coach, Educational Technology Doctoral Candidate. Researcher. Secondary Science. Wife of Thomas Franklin Hart I. (Maiden Name: Kromka.). Children: Indy & Karin Hart
I am studying Microbiology, Microbial Genetics in Lecture (including gene splicing) and Microbial Metabolism in Laboratory, (including Chemolithotrophy). They are completely fascinating topics and intersect in a fascinating way...which is gene splicing into humans the bacteria genes which produce glucose from inorganic products, these inorganic products are waste products for human beings.
The implication would be for science to either create a bacterial-human symbiotic relationship between Chemolithotrophic bacteria and humans so the bacteria produce glucose out of human waste products, or splice the glucose producing genes into human beings so we could then survive with little food and our glucose being produced internally and space travel with very little water and food...or live in remote places on earth with short growing seasons.
Here is some background information:
Chemolithotrophy in Bacteria...and creating a symbiotic relationship (or Gene Splicing and borrow their ability to make glucose from inorganic sources.) A chemolithotroph (named after the process of chemolithotrophy) is able to use inorganic reduced compounds as a source of energy.[3] This process is accomplished through oxidation and ATP synthesis. The majority of chemolithotrophs are able to fix carbon dioxide (CO2) through the Calvin cycle, a metabolic pathway in which carbon enters as CO2 and leaves as glucose.[4] This group of organisms includes sulfur oxidizers, nitrifying bacteria, iron oxidizers, and hydrogen oxidizers. It has been suggested that biominerals could be important indicators of extraterrestrial life and thus could play an important role in the search for past or present life on the planet Mars.[3] Furthermore, organic components (biosignatures) that are often associated with biominerals are believed to play crucial roles in both pre-biotic and biotic reactions.[28] Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithotroph#Chemolithotrophs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering
By inserting a human gene into a bacterium, scientists can produce large amounts of the protein that is encoded by the gene. ... Human insulin is produced through the use of bacteria.Apr 25, 2017