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Because microrganisms differ in their response to chemical antimicrobial agents, the choice of disinfectant for a particular purpose is guided in part by the type of microbe present in the contaminated material.

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because some use oxygen to grow and some do not

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I think its for linking together amino acids in the hydroxide reactions in the ribosomes (probably more things they use oxygen for that I don't know)

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