Complex media contains precise amounts of pure chemicals in distilled water, while defined media often contains digests or extracts.

What event is SJ Gould describing in this paragraph? “Thus did the second unmasking begin in the transposed home and living presence of the first – and the ghost of Linnaeus smiled (being more generous and ecumenical than the great Swede in life) as Darwin’s words revealed a causal basis for the natural order that Linnaeus had codified. And the psalmist intoned his ancient song: “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”

Surgicel is composed of  ____.

Match the media with its description:

An organism that is capable of incomplete hemolysis will result in a green halo surrounding the bacterial colonies and is called beta hemolysis.

Mannitol salt agar differentiates between staphylococci and other organisms because of the high concentration of sugar contained in the media.

Eschar can accumilate on the end of a bovie tip, therefore, a surgical technologist should clean the bovie tip and remove the eschar.

An organism that is capable of incomplete hemolysis will result in a green halo surrounding the bacterial colonies and is called gamma hemolysis.

_________ is the technique used to insure that you are working with a pure culture and do not contaminate your plates.

An example of a pressure device that may be used to prevent deep-vein thrombosis is ____.