Becker's World of the Cell 9th Edition by Lewis Kleinsmith, Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni

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A New Biofuel. As a recent cell biology graduate, you have just been hired by a biotechnology company to develop a biofuel using algal cells that produce an oil very similar to diesel fuel. What model organism(s)might you use for each of the following aspects of this project What tools and techniques would you use
(a)Determining which genes and enzymes are required to produce the oil.
(b)Producing large amounts of a certain enzyme for further research.
(c)Studying whether any of the cellular enzymes interact with each other.
(d)Examining the involvement of any cellular organelles in storage or secretion of the oil.