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PREF ACE/INTROOUCTION Microbiai physiology is the major uncierpinning discipline of those biological activities which help to create biotechnology. It may not have the immediate appeal of genetic engineering but it provides the essential framework on the behaviour of microorganisms without...

Hardly jnore tlian a century has elapsed since urea, a compound jjresent in living organisms, was first prepared in the laboratory by chemical synthesis by the German ciiemist Wohler. In so doing he oj)ened the field of study of the vast number of chemical compounds occurring in living organisms....