Colonies & Microscopic

Question 1

Pinhead colonies
Yellow orange colonies

Answer 1

Staphylococcus

Question 2

Pinpoint colonies

Answer 2

Streptococcus

Question 3

Lancet shaped diplococci colonies

Answer 3

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Question 4

Kidney bean shaped diplococci colonies

Answer 4

Neisseria

Question 5

Hockey puck wagon wheel colonies

Answer 5

Moraxella catarrhalis

Question 6

Bulls eye colonies

Answer 6

Yersinia enterocolitica

Question 7

Safety pin colonies

Answer 7

Yersinia pestis
Pasteurella multocida
Burkholderia mallei

Question 8

Fried egg colonies

Answer 8

Mycoplasma hominis

Question 9

Medusa head
inverted pine tree tube colonies
Stand up like an egg

Answer 9

Bacillus anthracis

Question 10

white fried rice bacillus
wide zone on egg yolk agar

Answer 10

Bacillus cereus

Question 11

Coin with a raised rim colonies

Answer 11

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Question 12

Wrinkled leathery colony

Answer 12

Pseudomonas stutzeri
Burkholderia pseudomallei

Question 13

Lacunae pitting of agar

Answer 13

Moraxella lacunata
Bacteroides Ureolyticus

Question 14

Rosette sticklike structure

Answer 14

Cardiobacterium hominis

Question 15

Frosted glass appearing colony

Answer 15

Bacillus cereus

Question 16

Chinese character
club shaped
barbed
palisades V and L formations

Answer 16

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Question 17

Foam loving colonies

Answer 17

Aggregatibacter aphrophilus

Question 18

Star shape with four to six points

Answer 18

Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans

Question 19

Pearl like colonies

Answer 19

Bordetella

Question 20

Seagull long spirals S shaped colonies

Answer 20

campylobacter jejuni
Acrobacter

Question 21

Cauliflower colony
Serpentine

Answer 21

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Question 22

ground glass
cut glass colonies

Answer 22

Legionella spp
Bacillus

Question 23

Breadcrumb colonies

Answer 23

Fusobacterium nucleatum
Neisseria sicca

Question 24

Opaque apron CIN colonies

Answer 24

Yersinia enterolitica
Aeromonas
Plesiomonas

Question 25

Horse manure colony

Answer 25

Clostridium difficile

Question 26

Cigarette packet picket fence colony

Answer 26

Mycobacterium leprae

Question 27

Croissant like colony

Answer 27

Mycobacterium microti

Question 28

Mercury droplets colonies

Answer 28

Bordetella pertussis

Question 29

Brick red fluorescence colonies

Answer 29

Prevotella Porphyromonas

Question 30

Double zone of hemolysis Box Car

Answer 30

Clostridium perfringens

Question 31

Swarming colonies

Answer 31

Clostridium tetani C. septicum proteus

Question 32

Molar tooth colony with sulfur granules

Answer 32

Actinomyces israelii

Question 33

Bread crumbs colony

Answer 33

Fusobacterium nucleatum

Question 34

Feathered edge colonies with green zone

Answer 34

Alkaligenes faecalis

Question 35

School of fish railroad track fingerprint

Answer 35

Haemophilus ducreyi

Question 36

Fusiform bacilli

Answer 36

Capnocytophaga Fusobacterium nucleatum

Question 37

Bamboo square ends

Answer 37

Bacillus anthracis

Question 38

Gram positive rod

Answer 38

Listeria monocytogenes

Question 39

Slender slightly curved or straight rod shaped organisms

Answer 39

Mycobacterium

Question 40

Helically coiled bacteria

Answer 40

Borrelia

Question 41

Corkscrew

Answer 41

Treponema

Question 42

Tight twisted with one or both ends bent into a hook

Answer 42

Leptospira spp