Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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Author: John W. Foster, Joan L. Slonczewski
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The factors that help an organism to determine the type of catabolic pathway to use and the dependency of catabolism on environmental factors.
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Each living organism requires energy to carry out their basic life processes. The energy-yielding reactions are termed as
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