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Whether the “germ-free” animals raised in axenic environment would be as healthy as their worldly counterparts.

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The axenic culture can be described as the culture in which the researchers grow only single strain, variety or species of organism. These cultured organisms are grown in microbe free environment. The axenic cultures play significant role in the studies involving symbiotic and parasitic organisms.

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