After boiling water for a short period of time,the water is checked for the presence of living cells.When it is determined that no active,living cells are present,the water is used to make agar,a media used for bacterial growth.Within 48 hours there are numerous colonies of cells growing on the agar.What type of prokaryote is growing? Why was the organism not detected in the water?
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