Bioengineering


Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Parasite (Parasitology, #1)
Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1)
Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
The Windup Girl
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
Beggars in Spain (Sleepless, #1)
Blood Music
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Altar of Eden
Lock In (Lock In, #1)
The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2)
Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
Sue Burke
I had so much to learn. We knew that Pax was a billion years older than Earth. On Earth, plants had separated from animals less than a billion years ago. Probably Pax plants had more time to evolve. The greenery around me held secrets I would never learn.
Sue Burke, Semiosis

Sue Burke
We had already realized from the disaster on Mars that transplanting Earth ecology wouldn't work. Crops would not grow without specific symbiotic fungi on their roots to extract nutrients, and the exact fungi would not grow without the proper soil composition, which did not exist without certain saprophytic bacteria that had proven resistant to transplantation, each life-form demanding its own billion-year-old niche. But Mars fossils and organic chemicals in interstellar comets showed that the b ...more
Sue Burke, Semiosis

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