Question

List three morphological characteristics demonstrated by organisms growing on culture media.

Answer 1

Let us describe the morphological characteristics demonstrated by bacteria growing on culture media:

1. The configurations of colonies which are formed by bacteria on agar plates have configurations ranging from round, wrinkled, concentric, irregular, filamentous, filiform, rhizoid etc.
2. The margins of the colonies range from smooth, wavy, lobate, thread-like, ciliate etc.
3. The elevations of the colonies can be distinguished on whether it is flat, raised, convex, drop like, ingrowing into medium etc.