How Could You Show Experimentally That a Newly Discovered Disease-Causing

question 3

Multiple Choice

How could you show experimentally that a newly discovered disease-causing agent is a virus or a bacterium?

• A)test to see if is killed by high temperatures
• B)test to see if is killed by changes in pH
• C)test to see if it is metabolically active outside a living cell

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