Should Food Have Bacteria? | NSTA

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Should Food Have Bacteria?

Life Science Middle School

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Lesson Snapshot

Students develop an explanation for how one organism’s (lactobacillus) population growth in an ecosystem may cause the population growth of other organisms in the same ecosystem to decrease. The ecosystem students explore is food.

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