LooseLeaf Benson's Microbiological Applications Laboratory Manual-Concise Version
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Author: Alfred E Brown Ph.D., Heidi Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To define: The term colony in relation to bacterial growth on solid media.

Introduction: The pure culture techniques are carried out in microbial laboratories, where the microbes of interest are isolated and cultures from other species of microbes. The pure culture techniques, the microbes are originated from the single organisms, where they are grown as cultures.

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In solid agar media, bacteria grows as colonies. It is defined as the visible mass of bacteria that originate from a single parent cell, where all the daughter cells are genetically similar. The bacterial colonies consist of billions of cells that form an visible growth or an colony.

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