Environmental Sample on Nutrient Agar

Notice the variety of colors and shapes on this nutrient agar plate. The "fuzzy" colonies are fungal growths while the others are various types of bacteria. Each of the colonies represents a "pile" of a particular kind of bacteria that, under the correct conditions, arose from a single bacteria and is distinctive enough in shape, size, and color to be used as a first step in identification of the bacteria..

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