Kimchi is traditional korean food made by fermenting cabbage or other vegetables in a mixture of spices and salt. kimchi originally developed as a method of preserving vegetables before the advent of modern refrigeration. why does the use of a salt solution in kimchi act as a preservative against bacterial decay?

You isolate an infectious substance capable of causing disease in plants, but you do not know whether the infectious agent is a bacterium, virus, viroid, or prion. you have four methods at your disposal to analyze the substance and determine the nature of the infectious agent. i. treat the substance with enzymes that destroy all nucleic acids and then determine whether the substance is still infectious. ii. microscope. iii. culture the substance on nutritive medium, away from any plant cells. iv. treat the sample with proteases that digest all proteins and then determining whether the substance is still infectious. if you already know that the infectious agent was either bacterial or viral, which method(s) listed above would allow you to distinguish between these two possibilities? a) ib) iic) ii or iiid) iv