{"id":1115,"date":"2018-08-14T03:49:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T03:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2018-08-14T03:49:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T03:49:29","slug":"microbiology-getting-started-talking-about-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/microiology\/microbiology-getting-started-talking-about-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbiology: Getting started talking about cultures."},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s get started talking about cultures.<\/p>\n

Pure culture<\/strong>: a culture that contains or is made up of a single species of microorganism.<\/p>\n

Colony<\/strong>: a growth cluster of a single species of microorganism.<\/p>\n

Subculturing<\/strong>: taking a sample of a pure culture and making (inoculating) a new culture. This is important so that you can make an ample supply of working cultures.<\/p>\n

Cultural characteristics<\/strong>: these are macroscopic (i.e. seen by the naked eye) characteristics observed. Sometimes the word “morphology” is used when describing the form of things. Click<\/strong> here<\/a> to download forms I made to help notate observations.<\/p>\n

Working culture<\/strong>: is basically a “stock” culture, one that you can use or sample from without contaminating the originals. It’s always wise to maintain a few working cultures via subculturing, especially if you have a very lengthy project.<\/p>\n

Reference<\/p>\n

Cappuccino,\u00a0J.\u00a0G., & Welsh,\u00a0C. (2018).\u00a0Microbiology: A laboratory manual<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s get started talking about cultures. Pure culture: a culture that contains or is made up of a single species of microorganism. Colony: a growth cluster of a single species of microorganism. Subculturing: taking a sample of a pure culture and making (inoculating) a new culture. This is important so that you can make an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microiology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integrativewellnessandmovement.com\/iwmbasicscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}