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I have a mixed culture plate and I want to do 16s rRNA analysis on it and I have a few questions. First of all there are no visible colonies, but I know bacteria is growing. Do I just take a small chunk of the medium and do PCR on it with universal primers (I have a procedure for this step)...

What does it mean that "acid is produced from ____" by bacteria? I've identified a bacteria (specifically stephococcus thermophilis) and am using Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology to learn more about it. The manual states S. Thermophilis produces acid from glucose, but not from...

I'm stuck here too! How do you go from wave numbers to j values. What's the difference between j and j'?