Making bacterias adapt to electricity in order to make superconducters

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Super bacterias

The only way the bacterias could survive an electric field in a quickly exchanged fluid would be by reducing the resistance that creates heat. Is it possible to make bacterias evolve into creating superconducting material?

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Bacteria (or any organism for that matter) usually do not suddenly develop new traits upon encountering a certain selective pressure.
Rather, the given pressure selects for bacteria that already possess a favourable phenotype (triggering error-prone DNA replication usually does not yield complex phenotypes). In other words, for that to happen you already would have to have superconductive bacteria and then select for it.
Most biological conductive (nano) structures are semiconductors, btw.
 
CharonZ said:
Bacteria (or any organism for that matter) usually do not suddenly develop new traits upon encountering a certain selective pressure.
Rather, the given pressure selects for bacteria that already possess a favourable phenotype (triggering error-prone DNA replication usually does not yield complex phenotypes). In other words, for that to happen you already would have to have superconductive bacteria and then select for it.
Most biological conductive (nano) structures are semiconductors, btw.
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Bacterias evolve quicker then any other organism, mostly because they replicate ones every 15 to 20 minutes by comparison 1.5 million times faster then any man, given that you could easily make them mutate to find this one gene, given proper radiation exposure, on a hundred years or so. 2.5 million generations. A billion individuals. Sounds likely.

It would be well worth it, I figure.
 
Well, this is not entirely unrelated, but I read an article once and made a school research on it. It was about "viral nano-electronics". Basically they employed viruses that would coat themselves with the surrounding substances, such as gold, to make nano films of gold to use in circuits and batteries that conducted much better.
 
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