Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 30.2, Problem 2MI
How do heterotrophic microbes contribute to the pool of DOM? How does this compare with the manner by which microbial autotrophs contribute to the DOM pool?
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