Endospores are hardy, defensive structures that enable some bacteria to survive harmful environmental conditions, such as starvation, high temperatures, desiccation (drying out), chemical disinfectants and extremes in pH.
Recursive formula is a formula that is used to determine the next term of a sequence using one or more of the preceding terms.
This geometric sequence has a common ratio of 3, meaning that we multiply each term by 3 in order to get the next term in the sequence. The recursive formula for a geometric sequence is written in the form. For our particular sequence, since the common ratio (r) is 3, we would write. So once you know the common ratio in a geometric sequence you can write the recursive form for that sequence. However, the recursive formula can become difficult to work with if we want to find the 50th term. Using the recursive formula, we would have to know the first 49 terms in order to find the 50th.