Question

1. Do some research and try to identify one to three types of microbes cultured on your plates. Using any resources available to you (i.e., a textbook or internet sources such as the CDC website), look up what bacteria are usually found on the areas from which you obtained your samples and the morphological characteristics of their colonies. Describe what morphological traits (i.e., size, shape, arrangement, color, margin, etc.) led to your hypothesized species identification. Be as specific as possible in the microbe type.

Answer 1

I have identified Escherichia coli and Bacillus sp.

Step-by-step explanation:

I obtained my sample from soil, in a park near my house. The common bacteria on soil are gram positive and gram negative.

I found rods, and some are gram positive and long. They others are gram negative and very small and short.

The color of the gram positive is a dark blue, almost purple, and they are big and abundant, they are almost in lines, so I think they are a species of Bacillus.

The gram negative bacteria are extremely small and they look hot pink. They are very probably enterobacteria, and the most common enterobacteria is Escherichia coli. They do not have a particular order of arrangement.