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Article Title
Document Type
Article
Abstract
A major activity of most college level introductory microbiology courses is the identification of one or more unknown bacterial species. The ways suggested in many lab manuals for identifying bacteria are often unorganized and difficult to follow. In addition, the huge volume of information often required to make a diagnosis may overwhelm beginning microbiology students who are largely incapable of weighing the importance of many of the tests in trying to decide how to best proceed with the identification. Microbiology manuals too often overlook the fact that identification is an orderly process of moving from general characteristics to more specific differences between closely related organisms.
Publication Date
Winter 1983-84
Journal Title
Iowa Science Teachers Journal
Volume
20
Issue
3
First Page
17
Last Page
21
Copyright
© Copyright 1983 by the Iowa Academy of Science
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Ziser, Steve
(1983)
"The Identification of Unknown Bacteria,"
Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 20:
No.
3, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol20/iss3/5