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1.) How do lactic acid bacteria make yogurt from milk?

2.) What bacteria were in your starter culture (yogurt you use to make your yogurt)? What can you find out about the strain? (answer the best you can, some proprietary strains do not have much publically available information)

a. Genus/species

b. Is it Gram positive or negative? What does that mean about the cell wall?

c. What shape is it (cocci, bacilli, spirochete?)

d. Does it have a capsule

e. Anything else you found out?

3.) Do some research-what is another food made through the metabolism of microbes? What microbe(s) are involved? What is their metabolism? How do the products of their metabolism lead to the final food product?

4.) What was the most interesting thing you found out through this activity?