Patent- you can patent DNA sequences.
I created a firefly luciferase (the protein that acts on luciferin to make them glow)that could be expressed in a species of yeast that had a unique codon usage for one amino acid. I had to change that codon in the ten places it occurs in the gene. This was a unique sequence that did not occur in nature. It and the process to detect it in yeast could be patented.
Wonderful, I suppose.
How does your glow in the dark yeast prove that the adaptive behavior of bacteria is anything but a pre-programmed response provided at the time of creation?
What you did could be best termed “intelligent design,” since it was directed by a plan from outside the organism.