A bacterium is inoculated into a tube of thioglycollate and incubated.  After incubation, turbidity appears throughout, top to bottom, with the greatest turbidty at the very top.  This bacterium would be called a(n) ________.

A. psychrotroph
B. aerotolerant microbe
C. facultative anaerobe
D. obligate aerobe
E. microaerophile


Answer: C

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