Foundations in Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259705212
Author: Kathleen Park Talaro, Barry Chess Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 11.L2, Problem 2VC
2. Explain what is happening with this graph that charts the reactions of a mesophilic bacterium to temperature. Blue shows the survival curve and brown the growth curve under various temperatures.
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