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Generalizations about bacteriology: thermodynamic, open systems, genetic instructions, and evolution

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Biological generalizations about bacteriology are discussed to provide a broad perspective of what we know about bacteria. Bacteriology (and possibly all biology) from an overall perspective can be researched and understood as observations and experimentations on mass and energy, which are themselves the products of evolutionary change for about 3.5–3.9 billion years. All organisms have mass, transform, store and use biochemical energy and obey the most fundamental of all laws-the laws of thermodynamics. Bacteria can be viewed as semi-permeable, thermodynamically open systems of mass, controlled by relatively small amounts of genetic instructions with lower entropy than their higher entropy, surrounding environments. Some fundamental properties describing bacterial life are also presented.

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Trevors, J.T. Generalizations about bacteriology: thermodynamic, open systems, genetic instructions, and evolution. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 97, 313–318 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-010-9419-3

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