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Chapter 6...
Group 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Selective media | Designed to suppress the growth of unwanted bacteria and encourage the growth of the desired microbes |
| Differential media | make it easier to distinguish colonies of the desired organism from other colonies growing on same plate |
| Complex media | Made up of nutrients including extracts from yeasts, meat or plants or digest of proteins from these and other sources |
| reducing media | special ingredients that chemically combine with dissolved oxygen and deplete the oxygen in the culture medium |
| chemically defined media | One whose exact chemical composition is known |