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Relatively little is known about many obligate anaerobes. Why would this
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Why is it beneficial to the anoxygenic phototrophs to have light-harvesting
pigments that absorb wavelengths of light that penetrate to greater depths? |
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How could heavily fertilized lawn foster the development of nuisance blooms? |
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Why would sulfur-oxidizing bacteria accumulate sulfur? |
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Why would it be an advantage for a Pseudomanas species to encode
enzymes for degrading certain compounds on a plasmid rather than the chromosome? |
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If you wanted to determine the number of endospores in a sample of soil,
what could you do before plating it? |
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The genomes of free-living spirochetes are larger than those of ones that
live within an animal host. Why would this be so? |
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Why would breast-feeding impact the composition of a baby's intestinal
flora? |
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What characteristic of the methanogens makes it logical to discuss them
with the Bacteria rather than the other Archaea? |
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