Fundamentals Of Microbiology 10th Edition by Jeffrey Pommerville

Exercise 31

Compare and contrast complex and chemically undefined media.
b. Explain how microbiologists have figured that some 99% of the microbial world has not been "seen."
c. Why might it be more difficult to isolate a colony from a pour-plate than from a streak-plate culture
d. Distinguish between direct and indirect methods to measure population growth.