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

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The fact that the bacteria colony grows back after being immersed in boiling water for hours suggests that it is endospore-forming, which enables it to survive extreme temperatures and other harsh conditions.

You Culture the Dried Soup from a 4,000-Year-Old Cooking Pot