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The location patterns, relative to the cross wall, of terminal-to-subterminal Bacillus cereus spores were determined in pairs of sporangia. The presence of three types of patterns suggests that spores are randomly located, but medium-dependent variability of the frequency ratios of the patterns strongly suggests that nonrandom localization cannot be discounted.
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