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klemol [59]
3 years ago
8

A microbiologist inoculates Staphylococcus epidermidis and Escherichia coli into a culture medium. Following incubation, only E.

coli grows in the culture. What is the most likely explanation?
Biology
1 answer:
Burka [1]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

The culture medium must be selective

Explanation:

Selective media are the media that have those ingredients which favor the growth of a particular bacterium and inhibit the growth of unwanted bacteria. So a selective media is used to selectively grow a particular micro-organism.

For example, MacConkey agar is a selective media that is used to isolate gram-negative enteric bacteria based on lactose fermenting ability. It contains ingredients like bile salt and crystal violet which inhibits the growth of gram-positive bacteria therefore it only allows the growth of gram-negative bacteria.

<em>Staphylococcus</em> <em>epidermidis</em> is a gram-positive bacteria and <em>E.coli</em> is gram-negative enteric bacteria so MacConkey agar can be used to select E.coli over <em>Staphylococcus</em> <em>epidermidis</em>. So the correct answer is the culture media must be selective.

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