Hi everyone in Lab land
We have grown some interesting greeblies on our nutrient agar plates.
Any ideas what they could be? The black mouldy ones look like fairy rings
Thanks
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It's really an educated guess when you're trying to identify bacteria/mould based on colour, texture etc.....but you can tell them that the glossy round yellow ones are probably Staph aureus, the fuzzy green, white & black ones are mould/fungi.....green probably Penicillium species, black probably Aspergillus niger, white maybe Aspergillus oryzae or fumigatus.....just a stab in the dark really, but reel off the names & you'll sound super cool
I've attached some with a few other greeblies identi-guessed too
Bacteria ID photos.pdf
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I'd say all the black colonies are Aspergillus niger...the fairy rings & the plate covered in it. It sometimes grows in circular patterns....any idea how the double ring effect happened? Looks cute
On the topic of fungi.....I just popped out to buy some stuff for a prac, & found THIS gorgeous thing growing in a garden bed just inside the school fence....
Fungus.jpg
Fungus2.jpg
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