Journal
GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 7, Pages 522-536Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01490450903102525
Keywords
arsenic respiring microorganisms; biofilm; biogeochemical cycling; exobiology; planetary evolution
Funding
- USGS
- NSF [DBI-0511972]
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
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If you were asked to speculate about the form extra-terrestrial life on Mars might take, which geomicrobial phenomenon might you select as a model system, assuming that life on Mars would be 'primitive'? Give your reasons. At the end of my senior year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1968, I took Professor Ehrlich's final for his Geomicrobiology course. The above question beckoned to me like the Sirens to Odysseus, for if I answered, it would take so much time and thought that I would never get around to the exam's other essay questions and consequently, would be oshipwreckedo by flunking the course. So, I passed it up. With this 41-year perspective in mind, this manuscript is now submitted to Professor Ehrlich for (belated) oextra-credit.o R.S. Oremland.
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