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Your team innoculates a SIM tube during the physiological testing labs on campus

ID: 280228 • Letter: Y

Question

Your team innoculates a SIM tube during the physiological testing labs on campus. After incubation, the area of growth is observed to spread into the agar from the site of inoculation, which indicates which of the following?

         The agar is being liquefied.       

         The bacteria are motile.       

         The bacteria are consuming the agar.        

         The bacterial culture was contaminated.       

         The bacteria are anaerobes.       

There should only be one option. Thank you!

Explanation / Answer

Which indicates which of the following?

B) The bacteria are motile.

Motile organism will display radial growth coming out from inoculation line.