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A tragic accident has occurred in your research lab; one of yourtwo grad students has died due to massive butyrate poisoning. Youimmediately launch an investigation and find that someone hasaccidently stored your aerobic, halophilc psychrophile prokaryotein the lab food fridge as opposed to the cell culture fridge.
The only food items found in the fridge is a jar of dill pickles,an apple pie, a pitcher of orange juice and 2 forks (one long, oneshort). What food item would you suspect was contaminated with yourprokaryote?

How would you confirm this?

Assuming both graduate students shared the food during a late nightmeal together what is your explanation regarding the metabolicpathways of your prokaryote and how your bacteria killed the gradstudent and why is the second grad student still alive?

Kind of confused. any insight? Thanks.

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Keith Leannon
Keith LeannonLv2
28 Sep 2019

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