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Biology

A scientist wants to culture Organism A, a bacterium thatis
salt tolerant, penicillin resistant and turns bright purplein
the presence of chemical X. You are the culture media
consultant and must recommend ways that she might enrich
her nutrient agar to create a selective and a differential
media for Organism A. You recommend the following two
“recipes”. HINT This is an imaginary bacterium. You
are to design two imaginary media- do not suggest ones
such a MacConkey agar.
a. Differential media

b. Selective media

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a Differential media contains such ingredients that allow differentiating between two organisms mostly on the basis of the color they produced In this case our imaginary bacterium gives the color purple in the    See Answer
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