Determine whether starch hydrolysis had occurred

Reference no: EM1396617

If iodine were not available, how would you determine whether starch hydrolysis had occurred? Some may see starch agar plate as an answer, however, isn't that already being used to grow the bacteria?

Reference no: EM1396617

Questions Cloud

Examining a regression analysis : Prepare a paper examining a regression analysis on your collected data. Begin by describing the research issue, problem, or opportunity and the accompanying data. Then, perform a regression analysis on your data.

Importance of bacterial lawn : Why is important to get a bacterial lawn rather than isolated colonies on the plate? Does the zone of inhibition's edge indicate the limit of antibacterial agent diffusion into the agar?

Linear trend equation for time series : Develop a linear trend equation for the time series. Graph the time series and the linear trend equation. What appears to be happening to capital expenditures? What is the forecast one year, or four quarters, into the future?

How you might be able to sort a mixed population of cells : Hypothesize about how you might be able to sort a mixed population of cells into prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Try to be practical, build on your understanding of the differences between the two cell classes.

Determine whether starch hydrolysis had occurred : If iodine were not available, how would you determine whether starch hydrolysis had occurred? Some may see starch agar plate as an answer, however, isn't that already being used to grow the bacteria?

Reaction between the inoculating loop and hydrogen peroxide : Would a false positive from the reaction between the inoculating loop and hydrogen peroxide be caused by poor specificity or poor sensitivity of the test system? Explain.

Hypothesis test with given standardized test statistic : Find the P value for the indicated hypothesis test with the given standardized test statistic, z. Decide whether to reject H0 for the given level of significance deviation. Two-tailed test with test statistic z= -2.43 and standard deviation = 0.04..

How many generations would it take for the culture : A microbiologist inoculates a growth medium with 200 bacterial cells/ml. If the generation time of the species is 1.5 hours. How many generations will it take for the culture to contain more than 6,000 cells/ml? How long, in hours, will it be befo..

Difference between gram positive and gram negative bacteria : E.coli and S.epidermidis were chosen to represent Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, respectively. For a given antibiotic, is there a difference in susceptibility between the Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria?

User Account

All Pages