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How can you determine whether a culture that you have been provided with is a "pure" culture?

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A pure culture contains only one single type; a mixed culture contains two or more different bacteria. If a bacterial culture is left in the same media for too long, the cells use up the available nutrients, excrete toxic metabolites, and eventually the entire population will die.

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