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प्रश्न
Why are the conventional methods not suitable for the assessment of biodiversity of bacteria?
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उत्तर
Many bacteria are not culturable under normal conditions in the laboratory. This becomes a problem in studying their morphological, biochemical and other characterizations which are useful for their assessment.
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