MANUAL 2: PART 2: CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS Flashcards
The pigmentation is expressed on the cell itself.
Intracellular pigmentation
The pigmentation is exuded onto agar from the cell.
Extracellular pigmentation
Exhibit no color or pigmentation at all.
Non-chromogenic
A form in agar slant that is continuous with smooth edges.
Filiform
A form in agar slant that is continuous with irregular edges.
Echinulate
A form in agar slant that is nonconfluent to semiconfluent growth.
Beaded
A form in agar slant that is thin spreading growth.
Effuse
A form in agar slant that looks like a tree growth.
Arborescent
A form in agar slant that looks like root like.
Rhizoid
A consistency where it looks like dry or no moisture expressed.
Friable
A consistency where it looks like moist and shiny.
Butyrous
A consistency where it looks like slimy and glistering.
Mucoid
A growth characteristic in broth where no growth is expressed.
Clean
A growth characteristic in broth that is fine cloudy precipitate.
Uniform fine turbidity
A growth characteristic in broth that is flaky aggregate present.
FlocculentA growth characteristic in broth that is
