We want to make totally new organisms that have never existed, and replace every existing organism with a better one".
"It will affect all organisms that have skeletons, shells, hard bits that are made of calcium carbonate".
And moving a rig disturbs the organisms that have attached themselves to its underside, or jacket.
"All major organisms that have been studied have this 24-hour clock," Dr Archer says.
Of the organisms that have crawled out of the primordial electronic muck, a rough consensus has emerged as to which types are eventually going to be profitable.
Among the infectious parasites are the protozoans, unicellular organisms that have no cell wall, that cause such diseases as malaria.
Organisms that have proved to be more resistant to antibiotics have become the more common causes of serious clinical infection.
The condition is caused by streptococcus or staphylococcus organisms that have entered the body through a skin wound.
Those eukaryotes that are anaerobic often are either parasites or obligate symbionts of multicellular organisms that have evolved from aerobic ancestors.
This similarity in genetic makeup between organisms that have such disparate phenotypes can be explained by the evolutionary relatedness of virtually all life-forms on Earth.
In addition, plants are sessile organisms that have to adapt to their living environments.
