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.
Definition of recursive. 1  1 : of, relating to, or involving recursion a recursive function in a computer program. 2  2 : of, relating to, or constituting a procedure that can repeat itself indefinitely a recursive rule in a grammar.