Labs
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- 1.1: Laboratory Safety
- In this course you will actually get to manipulate living things and see what happens…exciting! Working with living microorganisms also carries with it the risk of being harmed by these organisms. An infection contracted in a laboratory setting is called a Laboratory Acquired Infection (LAI).
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- 1.7: Colony Morphology
- On agar plates, bacteria grow in collections of cells called colonies. Each colony arises from a single bacterium or a few bacteria (CFU). Although individual cells are too small to be viewed with the unaided eye, masses of cells can be observed. Colonies can have different forms, margins, elevations and colors. Observing colony characteristics is one piece of information that microbiologists can use to identify unknown bacteria.