Response to comments on “in search of a thermodynamic description of biomass yields for the chemotropic growth of microorganisms”

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AbstractIt is shown that for the thermodynamic description of microbial growth there does not exist complete equivalency between the “efficiency” and “Gibbs energy dissipation” approach. The reasons for this absence of equivalency are discussed, and it is argued that the “dissipation approach” has much more favorable properties compared with the efficiency approach. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.