Natural Science Forum / Biology / Microbiology / April 2008

Due to puerience, I have become interested in whether abdominal
pregnancy has been induced in male rodents.
Are hormones required to enable the placenta to form properly within
the abdomen of a male mammal, or is no

Can anyone tell me
How to check the bacterial gorwth under anaerobic condition.
Actually i am doing bacterial taxonomy.
In that this is one of physiological test.

I am currently taking an introduction to microbiology class and am having
issues with a strain of bacteria.  We have run SIM tests, Citrate, MR-VP,
TSI and EMB tests.  Every test points to it being E. Coli except for the EMB
plate, instead of turning purple with a green sheen, it ...

Hi, I am doing my A level biology coursework. I am struggling to find out  
why streptomycin is more effective at inhibiting the growth of Gram negative  
bacteria (E coli) than at inhibiting the growth of gram postive bacteria (B  
Subtilis). I know about how the antibitoic wokrs, ...