Microbiology with Diseases by Body System (4th Edition)
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780321918550
Author: Robert W. Bauman Ph.D.
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6, Problem 1MC
Which of the following can grow in a Petri plate on a laboratory table?
- a. an anaerobic bacterium
- b. an aerobic bacterium
- c. viruses on an agar surface
- d. all of the above
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