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Autotrophs by Howard Lees
Department of Biochemistry, in the University of Aberdeen
Most bacteria, in order to live, have to be given the same sort of complicated foods that we need ourselves. But there are some bacteria, the autotrophs, which can virtually 'live on a r. The speaker describes how these autotrophs were discovered, how they behave, and why they are of agricultural and scientific importance.

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