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Whitish

whitish

1. Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.

2. (Science: botany) Covered with an opaque white powder.

Origin: From White.


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Need help with my unknown organism?? Confusing test results

... slant with H2S, none like this...) Nitrate: Positive? (I am not sure of this one but after adding zinc , no red color formed and it was cloudy whitish-clear color tube) Urease: negative (this helped me rule out Proteus) Glucose and Lactose fermentation: both negative So, My organism is a Nonfermenter ...

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by SweetSarah
Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:22 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Need help with my unknown organism?? Confusing test results
Replies: 2
Views: 698

Need URGENT help identifying unkown bacteria!

... a Nutritional Agar plate, Blood Agar, and endo Agar. The morphology was convex, more circular(mucoid on the blood agar), even margins, and a whitish/clear color. In the nutrient broth, in a test tube, there was sediment, turbidity, the color was a yellowish/white, and was unsure of the pellicle. ...

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by graymonkey44
Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:35 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Need URGENT help identifying unkown bacteria!
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Views: 4294

Re: similarities and differences between lymph and blood

... a circular motion. The movement of lymph is in a single direction. 4. Blood contains red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Lymph is a whitish and clear liquid. 5. You can see blood if there is damage to the vessels. Lymph cannot be seen with the naked eyes. 6. The kidneys purify the ...

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by viki78
Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:39 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: similarities and differences between lymph and blood
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Views: 6246

CLED agar help please

... of yours, but it might be that there is another, resistant microbe growing in addition to E. coli on the plate. There seem to be these larger, whitish colonies that are inhibited ( E. coli ) and then smaller, deep yellowish ones that are resistant (perhaps some cocci). You could try to spread ...

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by biohazard
Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:13 am
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: CLED agar help please
Replies: 2
Views: 3626

my unknown

... which differentiate coagulase + (black pigmented colonies) and coagulase - (grayish, or white)although it's certainly not perfect. By "whitish" in pigment, I'm assuming you have already tested on TGA, or do you mean regular nutrient agar? The latter usually doesn't tell you much.

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by gakerty
Wed May 13, 2009 5:22 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: my unknown
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