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Scientists estimate that only 1 percent of prokaryotes can be grown in the lab. what does this suggest about our knowledge of bacteria and archaea?

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This suggests that the knowledge we know about these species is very limited. Through deeper research and gaining of samples of these bacteria, scientists will be able to determine how to culture these prokaryotes better, but this would still take a long period of time.
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