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Compare the recipes of nutrient agar and macconkey agar. if an organism can grow on both media, on which would you expect it to grow better?

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Given a chance to grow on either a recipe of nutrient agar or macconkey agar, and organism would thrive much better with the nutrient agar. Nutrient agar contains beef extract, giving the organism better nutrition for growth and cell reproduction.
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