A Scientist Cultures the Dried Soup from a 4,000-Year-Old Cooking

question 31

Multiple Choice

A scientist cultures the dried soup from a 4,000-year-old cooking pot found in an Egyptian tomb and obtains a distinctive species of prokaryote. She immerses a test tube of these bacteria in boiling water for several hours, but the colony grows back. This species is probably

• A) halophilic.
• B) endospore-forming.
• C) a spirochete.
• D) a cyanobacteria.

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