Prescott's Microbiology
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Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
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Chapter 11.1, Problem 1RIA
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Discuss the ways in which organisms are classified based on their requirements for energy, carbon, and electrons.
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