You have cultures tubes of five organisms on your lab bench….
You have cultures tubes of five organisms on your lab bench. However, the labels of the tubes have come off and you need to relabel the tubes correctly! First, you look up some of the various reactions for the organisms in question: genus gramreaction shape (morphology) catalasereaction glucosefermentation lactosefermentation phenylalaninedeaminase citrateutilization Bacillus + rod + + or – ? ? ? Staphylococcus + coccus + + ? ? ? Enterobacter – rod + + + – + Morganella – rod + + – + – Pseudomonas – rod + – – – ? What one specific laboratory procedure will provide results to differentiate Bacillus and Staphylococcus from each other and also from the remaining three genera?