Six lessons cover this chapter. Open any of them on its own below, or meet it in place inside chapter 4 of the book. Tick a lesson off once you can predict what it will do before you touch it.
1
Build a Bacterium
Pick a shape and a grouping. Watch cocci, rods and spirals earn their names.
2
The Gram-Positive Bench
Pick Staphylococcus, Streptococcus or Clostridium. Run the tests that tell them apart.
3
Gram-negative Pathogens
Choose E. coli, Salmonella, Pseudomonas or Neisseria. Plate it and read the result.
4
The Rule-Breakers
Run three stains on three rule-breakers. See which stain makes each one show.
5
Bacteria & Oxygen
Stab a thioglycollate tube and incubate it. Read where each oxygen group grows.
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