Growing Bacteria

Bacteria do not vary in their nutritional growth requirements

• true

• false

Media that can help distinguish bacteria by the color of the colonies or the change in the medium.

• chemically defined media

• selective media

• enriched media

• differential media

Media that contains added essential nutrients a specific organism needs to grow

• chemically defined media

• selective media

• enriched media

• differential media

Media that favors the growth of some microorganisms while inhibiting others.

• chemically defined media

• selective media

• enriched media

• differential media

Media that contains only chemically known components.

• chemically defined media

• selective media

• enriched media

• differential media

This term means that a microbe has very specific nutritional requirements for growth.

• enriched

• fastidious

• selective

• differential

This term means that a culture media contains growth factors, vitamins, and other essential nutrients to prompt growth of fastidious organisms

• enriched

• fastidious

• selective

• differential

This term means that a culture media prevents the growth of unwanted organisms, while also supporting the growth of other microbes of interest

• enriched

• fastidious

• selective

• differential

This term means that a culture media makes it easy to distinguish colonies of different bacteria by a change in color of the colonies or the color of the medium

• enriched

• fastidious

• selective

• differential

Type of culturing media ; Contains a dye that is toxic to gram positive bacteria. Selects growth of coliform bacteria; Differentiates bacteria on their ability to ferment lactose

• Eosin methylene blue Agar

• MacConkey Agar

• Hektoen Agar

• Mannitol Salt Agar