Nester's Microbiology: A Human Perspective
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ISBN: 9781259709999
Author: Denise G. Anderson Lecturer, Sarah Salm, Deborah Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 28, Problem 2MC
Which of the following is false?
a) Culture techniques are an accurate way of determining which members in a microbial community are most common.
b) Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) can be used to distinguish subsets of prokaryotes that contain a specific
c) Taxonomic diversity of prokaryotes can be studied by examining 16S rRNA sequences.
d) Studying the genome of one organism can give insights into the characteristics of another.
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