Exam 3: Tools of the Laboratory: Methods for the Culturing of Microscopic Analysis of Microorganisms

All of the following are examples of different types of microbiological media except ______.

A reducing medium is used to culture ______ organisms.

The correct microbiological term for the sample of specimen that is put into a nutrient medium to produce a culture is ______.

Which of the following parts of a microscope magnifies the specimen to produce a real image of the specimen?

Bacterial cultures are easily identified from their microscopic appearance.

Agar is a complex polysaccharide that comes from a/an ______.

Which type of microscope does not use light in forming the specimen image?

Agar is an important component of media because

A pure culture contains

The bending of light rays as they pass from one medium to another is called refraction.

A microbiologist inoculates Staphylococcus epidermidis and Escherichia coli into a culture medium.Following incubation,only the E.coli grows in the culture.What is the most likely explanation?

The simple microscopes used by the earliest practitioners of microscopy contained which of the following?

Which isolation technique is most effective for the majority of applications and is most commonly used for colony isolation in the laboratory?

The three physical forms of laboratory media are ______.

Which of the following parts of the microscope magnifies the specimen to produce the virtual image of the specimen?