A scientist cultures the dried soup from a 4,000-year-old cooking pot found in an Egyptian tomb and obtains a distinctive species of prokaryote. She immerses 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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Endospore-forming bacteria are able to survive extreme conditions such as high heat, which allows them to survive even after being boiled for several hours. This characteristic makes them a likely candidate for the species found in the dried soup from the Egyptian tomb.

A Scientist Cultures the Dried Soup from a 4,000-Year-Old Cooking