Talmudic Question #122
By David Collins
Do we know of a bacterial taxon that has gone extinct?
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Where on Earth would one expect to find a single species of microbes (a pure culture) for sustained periods of time?
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Talmudic Question #207
Talmudic Question #207 How come the smallest cells of a given bacterial species are also the ones with the slowest growth rate?
