Culture Medium Definition

Culture Medium Sentence Examples

• Each bacterium capable of growth gives rise to a colony visible to the naked eye, and if the colonies are sufficiently apart, an inoculation can be made from any one to a tube of culture-medium and a pure culture obtained.

• For example, various sugars - lactose, glucose, saccharose, &c. - are added to test the fermentative action of the bacterium on these substances; litmus is added to show changes in reaction, specially standardized media being used for estimating such changes; peptone solution is commonly employed for testing whether or not the bacterium forms indol; sterilized milk is used as a culture medium to determine whether or not it is curdled by the growth.

• Such toxins being set free in the culture medium are often known as extracellular.

• A special culture medium is needed to grow Yersinia.

• The resulting progeny were raised in the presence and absence of tetracycline in the culture medium.