Certain Soil Fungi and Actinomycetes Are Known to Produce Specialized

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True/False

Certain soil fungi and actinomycetes are known to produce specialized organic compounds that inhibit or kill other,competing microorganisms in the soil,but so far scientists have not been able to put any of these compounds to practical use.

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Definitions:

Haworth Structure

A way of depicting cyclic sugars in a planar ring form, useful in illustrating the stereochemistry of the molecule.

Ethyl β-D-Galactopyranoside

A chemical compound that consists of ethyl and galactose molecules, where the galactose component is in the pyranose ring form and the anomeric carbon is in the beta configuration.

Methyl Glycoside

A compound resulting from the reaction of a sugar with methanol where the sugar's anomeric carbon is linked to a methoxy group.

Galactose

A simple sugar (monosaccharide) that, together with glucose, forms lactose, the principal sugar in milk.