Lab Practe Medias

Question 0

What is a glucose mineral salt agar?

Answer 0

Favors growth of bacteria that tolerates salts and sugars

Question 1

What is a TSA agar? 2

Answer 1

Grows almost anything

Kitchen sink agar (many nutrients)

Question 2

What Agars inhibit G(-)? 2

Answer 2

Glucose mineral salt and PEA agar

Question 3

What Agars inhibit G(+)? 3

Answer 3

EMB agar
Endo agar
Maconkey

Question 4

What’s Agars promote G(+)?

Answer 4

Pea

Question 5

What Agars promote G(-)? 3

Answer 5

EMB agar
Endo agar
Mockonky agar

Question 6

What is a glucose mineral salt agar?

Answer 6

Favors growth of bacteria that tolerates salts and sugars

Question 7

What is an EMB agar? E

Answer 7

Inhibits +, promotes -, lactose fermenting bacteria will turn metallic pink or metallic green

Question 8

What is a pea agar? 2

Answer 8

Promotes +, inhibits -

Question 9

What is an endo agar? 3

Answer 9

Promotes -, inhibits +, lactose fermenters turn pink or green

Question 10

What is a mannitol salt agar?

Answer 10

Promotes growth of halophilic bacteria

Question 11

What does halophilic mean?

Answer 11

Salt loving

Question 12

In a mannitol agar what does it mean if growth is yellow?

Answer 12

Ferments mannitol

Question 13

What is a Mockonky agar?

Answer 13

Inhibits +, promotes -, lactose fermenter turns pink

Question 14

What does a Simmons citrate agar indicate?

Answer 14

Determines if bacteria can utilize sodium citrate

Question 15

What will a positive Simmons citrate agar show?

Answer 15

Blue

Question 16

What does a urea agar test show?

Answer 16

Determines if it contains an enzyme called urease, positive will be pink

Question 17

What does an oxidase test show?

Answer 17

Bacterial respiration

Question 18

What does a catalase test show?

Answer 18

Detects bacterial respiration producing catalase

Question 19

What does a sims tube show?

Answer 19

Bacterial motility, sulfur production, indole