If You Were Going to Identify Microorganisms Within a Specimen

question 43

Multiple Choice

If you were going to identify microorganisms within a specimen containing large numbers of organisms (seawater, normal microbiota, etc.) , you would have to ______.

• A) use different kinds of serological tests
• B) amplify gene sequences within the sample to identify each of the different organisms
• C) use a wide variety of microbiological media to identify all of the different species of microorganisms
• D) use a wide variety of antibodies to react with the antigens

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