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Minimal medium |
1). Contain a simple carbon source and inorganic source of all other nutrients 2). Prototrophs can grow 3). Auxotrophs can grow |
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General purpose of medium |
1). Grow many MOs 2). Enrich medium to grow fastidious MOs and supplement |
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Selective medium |
1). Contains inhibitors to surpress certainMOs 2). To isolate desired Mos from mixed populations |
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Differential medium |
1). Contain indicators to react with certain products from metabolish 2). To distinguish two or more MOs 3). Can be both selective and differential |
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Pure Culture |
1). a single kind of MO is in here 2). They are all identical cells |
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Colony |
A visible cell mass on solid medium formed from the multiplication of a single cell |
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Selective media Vs. Differential media |
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