Brock Biology of Microorganisms (14th Edition)
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780321897398
Author: Michael T. Madigan, John M. Martinko, Kelly S. Bender, Daniel H. Buckley, David A. Stahl, Thomas Brock
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 16.7, Problem 1MQ
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Archaea is a single celled microorganism which has no cell nucleus. They are cosmopolitan in distribution. Archae are important in ecological role of carbon and nitrogen cycle. They exhibit asexual type of reproduction by binary fission, budding and fragmentation.
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