Explain why you might have gotten different appearing colonies on plates 2 and 3.

The plates you are using for this lab will be autoclaved eventually to completely sterilize them. The measures taken to disinfect the tabletops (the source of the organisms on plates 2 and 3) are not as extreme. Why?

Q196: A description of colony morphology provides important information about an organism. What other information should you include when describing physical growth characteristics?

Three critical aspects of a description of bacterial growth are colony size, color, and shape. At least three other important factorsnot physical descriptionstypically are included when describing bacterial growth. What do you suppose they are and why they are important?