Compare The Number Of Colonies Present And The Percentage Of Fungal Colonies

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Table 1: Table consisting of the number of colonies present and the percentage of fungal colonies.
In Table 1 both fungal and bacterial colonies refer to the number of individual groups with distinct boundaries which match the assumed physical characteristic for each group. It is important to note the large increase in the number of fungal colonies as well as the decrease of bacterial colonies in the Mycophil plate both of which account for the discrepancy between the two percentages of fungal colonies present.
Table 2: Percentage of Fungal colonies present, over the total number of colonies present. Section data is an average of the results of the individual members in the lab period. Class data is an average of all the section data.
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