46 MICROBIOLOGY 



Limits of Size 



Size of Majority 



Ends, rounded, truncate, concave. 



/ Orientation (grouping) 



Agar J Chains (No. of elements) 



Hanging-Block A Short chains, long chains 



( Orientation of Chains, parallel, irregular. 



2. Sporangia, medium used , temp , 



age days 



Form, elliptical, short rods, spindled, clavate, drumsticks. 



Limits of Size Size of Majority 



j Orientation (grouping) 



\ Chains (No. of elements) . . 

 Hanging-Block 



Orientation of Chains, parallel, irregular. 



Location of Endospores, central, polar. 



3. Endospores. 



Form, rounded, elliptical, elongated. 



Limits of Size 



Size of Majority 



Wall, thick, thin. 



Sporangium wall, adherent, not adherent. 



Germination, equatorial, oblique, polar, bipolar, by stretching. 



4. Flagella No Attachment polar, bipolar, peritrichiate. 



How Stained 



5. Capsules, present on 



6. Zoogloea, Pseudozoogloea. 



7. Involution Forms, on in. . . .days at. ... C. 



S. Staining Reactions. 



1:10 watery fuchsin, gentian violet, carbol fuchsin. 

 Loeffler's alkaline methylene blue. 

 Special Stains. 



Gram Glycogen 



Fat Acid fast 



Neisser 



II. CULTURAL FEATURES ( 3 ) 

 1. Agar Stroke. 



Growth, invisible, scanty, moderate, abundant. 



Form of growth, filiform, echinulate, beaded, spreading, plumose, 



arborescent, rhizoid. 



Elevation of growth, flat, effuse, raised, convex. 

 Lustre, glistening, dull, cretaceous. 

 Topography, smooth, contoured, rugose, verrucose. 

 Optical Characters, opaque, translucent, opalescent, iridescent. 

 Chromogenesis ( 8 ) 



