Microbes & toxinsG.P. Putnam, 1912 - 316 pages |
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... properties ? Here are impenetrable mysteries . One may perceive , however , that since combustion and putrefaction are the means which nature employs to return to the mineral kingdom what has been drawn from it in the building up of ...
... properties ? Here are impenetrable mysteries . One may perceive , however , that since combustion and putrefaction are the means which nature employs to return to the mineral kingdom what has been drawn from it in the building up of ...
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... properties . There exist certain moulds which fix the nitrogen of the air , for example the Penicillia and the Sterigmatocystes . The algæ of the nostoc group , Chlorella , Stichococcus and Cystococcus , fix nitrogen only when in ...
... properties . There exist certain moulds which fix the nitrogen of the air , for example the Penicillia and the Sterigmatocystes . The algæ of the nostoc group , Chlorella , Stichococcus and Cystococcus , fix nitrogen only when in ...
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... properties . In both cases it is the antagonistic action of microbes towards the bacteria of decomposition of which one takes advantage . Fermented foods , rich in bacteria , were employed long before modern researches on microbial ...
... properties . In both cases it is the antagonistic action of microbes towards the bacteria of decomposition of which one takes advantage . Fermented foods , rich in bacteria , were employed long before modern researches on microbial ...
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... properties are chiefly B. bifidus , B. acidi paralactici and the lactic ferment which has become popular under the name of the Bulgarian bacillus ; they are given either singly or in association . They may be taken either in the form of ...
... properties are chiefly B. bifidus , B. acidi paralactici and the lactic ferment which has become popular under the name of the Bulgarian bacillus ; they are given either singly or in association . They may be taken either in the form of ...
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... properties of an anthrax bacillus are fixed , and transmitted to the new generation , by a sort of heredity , by means of the spore . It is not impossible that some sexual differentiation exists in the sporulating bacteria ...
... properties of an anthrax bacillus are fixed , and transmitted to the new generation , by a sort of heredity , by means of the spore . It is not impossible that some sexual differentiation exists in the sporulating bacteria ...
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