The American Society for Microbiology's Agar Art Contest can be found here. Following is a transcript of the video: Narrator: This artwork is alive. Each one is made from fungi and bacteria.

It tests the ability of an organism to do several things: reduce sulfur, produce indole and swim through the agar (be motile). SIM is commonly used to differentiate members of Enterobacteriaceae.

But it was the adaptation of the agar used in a dessert made by one of the members of Koch's laboratory to make a solid growth medium that ushered in an era in which bacteria could be studied in ...

An inoculating loop can be used to transfer bacteria. It is sterilised by heating it to red hot in a Bunsen flame, before and after use. To inoculate the agar, lift the lid of the Petri dish and tilt.

Some species can replicate themselves in as little as twenty minutes. We can grow bacteria in an incubator on plates of agar jelly with time, nutrients, and an optimum temperature. These girls at ...

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The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Oct., 1921), pp. 390-407 (18 pages) In agar culture mediums containing 0.1% agar, the gel, composed of colloidal particles in a state of equilibrium ...

Corrado Nai Corrado Nai is full-time parenting and part-time writing. He has a PhD in microbiology and used agar every day for over ten years. He is currently writing a graphic novel about Fanny ...