Describe How Syntrophy Helps Explain Why Certain Enrichments Yield Consortia

question 59

Essay

Describe how syntrophy helps explain why certain enrichments yield consortia and never an individual species.

---

Definitions:

Nondisjunction

The failure of chromosomes to separate properly during cell division, leading to cells with abnormal chromosome numbers.

Point Mutation

A genetic mutation where a single nucleotide base is changed, inserted, or deleted from a sequence of DNA or RNA.

Aneuploidy

The presence of an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell, leading to genetic syndromes like Down syndrome due to an extra chromosome or Turner syndrome due to a missing chromosome.

Point Mutation

A point mutation is a genetic mutation where a single nucleotide base is changed, inserted, or deleted from a sequence of DNA or RNA, potentially affecting protein function.