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<center><h2 style="height:100px; padding-top:5px"><font size="+10">Description</font></h2></center> | <center><h2 style="height:100px; padding-top:5px"><font size="+10">Description</font></h2></center> | ||
− | <center><font color="silver">Our project, "Knockout Nitrate", is a developing project with the aim to use synthetic biology to balance the nitrogen cycle. </font></center><p><center><font color="silver><h2>Background</h2></font></center></p> | + | <center><font color="silver">Our project, "Knockout Nitrate", is a developing project with the aim to use synthetic biology to balance the nitrogen cycle. </font></center> |
+ | <p><center><font color="silver"><h2>Background</h2></font></center></p> | ||
<p><center><font color="silver">Nitrogen is a highly abundant element in the Earth’s atmosphere. Nitrogen is also essential for life. However, atmospheric nitrogen (N2) is not useful in living processes. Humans have developed processes to convert unreactive atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen such as Ammonia or Nitrate for plants and animals (reactive nitrogen). To maximize crop yield, many farmers add nitrogen based fertilizer to their crops. Oftentimes excess nitrogen in the soil is washed away by rain into other natural water systems. This nitrogen runoff can and does have devastating effects on the biodiversity in waterways.</font></center></p> | <p><center><font color="silver">Nitrogen is a highly abundant element in the Earth’s atmosphere. Nitrogen is also essential for life. However, atmospheric nitrogen (N2) is not useful in living processes. Humans have developed processes to convert unreactive atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen such as Ammonia or Nitrate for plants and animals (reactive nitrogen). To maximize crop yield, many farmers add nitrogen based fertilizer to their crops. Oftentimes excess nitrogen in the soil is washed away by rain into other natural water systems. This nitrogen runoff can and does have devastating effects on the biodiversity in waterways.</font></center></p> | ||
<p><center><font color="silver">To read more background information about the nitrate problem, click the image below.</font></center></p> | <p><center><font color="silver">To read more background information about the nitrate problem, click the image below.</font></center></p> |
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