Who developed the culturing technique to enrich for a certain population of microbial cells from a complex community based on a particular metabolic phenotype of interest?

a. Frederick Griffith
b. Joseph Lister
c. Martinus Beijerinck
d. Sergei Winogradsky


Answer: C

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