Combo: Loose Leaf Version of Microbiology: A Human Perspective with Connect Access Card
8th Edition
ISBN: 9781259390586
Author: Eugene W Nester Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 1MC
The property of endospores that led to confusion in the experiments on spontaneous generation is their
a) small size.
b) ability to pass through cork stoppers.
c) heat resistance.
d) presence in all infusions.
e) presence on cotton plugs.
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