Why Is There a New Reliance on Metagenomics to Find

question 17

Multiple Choice

Why is there a new reliance on metagenomics to find new organisms that may produce a medically or industrially important product?

• A)So far,only about 10% of useful microbes have been grown in the laboratory.
• B)Soils contain so many potential sources of microbes producing antibiotics it would take more than a century to screen them all.
• C)We do not have the techniques for growing most microbes found in nature.
• D)All of these argue for the need to use metagenomics to identify new useful microbial products.

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