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Name three non-living groups in the microbial world and describe their major properties.
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Ch. 1 - How did Louis Pasteur help disprove spontaneous...Ch. 1 -
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Ch. 1 - Explain why life could not exist without the...Ch. 1 - How is the normal microbiota important to human...Ch. 1 -
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9. Why are viruses not microorganisms?
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2. The Golden Age of Microbiology was the time...Ch. 1 - If all prokaryotes were eliminated from the...Ch. 1 - Prob. 4MCCh. 1 -
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9. Viruses
1. contain both protein and nucleic...Ch. 1 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek could not have observed a)...Ch. 1 - The American Society for Microbiology is preparing...Ch. 1 - If you were asked to nominate one of the...Ch. 1 - A microbiologist obtained two pure biological...Ch. 1 - Why would archaea that grow in extreme...
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