Heterotrophic bacteria definition

Heterotrophic bacteria means a broad class of aerobic and facultative anaerobic organisms which use organic nutrients for growth. The group includes many innocuous bacteria as well as virtually all of the bacteria pathogens and those bacteria infect when the host defenses are weakened.
Heterotrophic bacteria means viable aerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria in a water environment, capable of growth on the selected plating medium.

Examples of Heterotrophic bacteria in a sentence

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