Nutrition and Culturing

These microbiological media separate groups based upon their ability to utilize nutrients or by a specific form of growth.

These microbiological media allow one group of microbes to grow, while inhibiting others.

What term describes the condition wherein an individual colony on a plate of media represents a single species, since all of its members arose from a single, isolated cell?

Which of the following temperature ranges for growth best describes the group known as mesophiles?

Most human pathogens share this characteristic with their host.

An agar deep is inoculated with an unknown bacterium. After incubation, the greatest growth is on the top of the deep.  Based upon this observation, it can be concluded that the microbe is a(n)

A student isolates a Gram-positive coccus she suspects may be either the Genus Streptococcus or the Genus Staphylococcus.  What test could she perform that would enable her to rapidly separate the two?

Obligate anaerobes are unable to survive in an oxygen environment owing to their inability to produce

Aerobes utilize this as their primary hydrogen and electron acceptor during metabolic processes.

These organisms utilize sunlight as a source of energy and carbon dioxide as their primary carbon source.