Under ideal conditions, bacterial cell proliferation is exponential, transforming an empty Petri dish into a lush “lawn” of growth. However, as a bacterial colony develops, “growing pains” are ...

In fact, biofilms can withstand doses up to 1,000 times greater than their planktonic counterparts. Within the biofilm, bacteria take on different responsibilities. Some individuals focus on ...

When recording colony morphology, it is important to also record color, optical properties (translucence, sheen) and texture (moist, mucoid or dry). However, remember that color is often influenced by ...

Over the next few sessions in lab you will be learning how to isolate bacterial colonies into individual species. This allows for the creation of a pure culture, a culture of bacteria containing only ...

If we count the number of individual colonies of bacteria on the plates, it is possible to estimate the numbers of individual bacteria in the original sample. In order to make an accurate ...

These plates contain colonies of bacteria. These colonies remind me of a city with many inhabitants. In each bacterium there is a king. He is very long, but skinny. The king has many servants.