LibGuides: BIO203A: Module 2

Module 2 Required Resources

Your course requires a textbook that must be purchased from the NU Bookstore or any other resource of your choosing (for example, on Amazon).

Tiny Earth - A Research Guide to Studentsourcing Antibiotic Discovery by J. Handelsman, S. Hernandez, T. Tsang, C. Bascom-Slack, and N. Broderick
ISBN: 9781711470726
Publication Date: 2022
J. Handelsman, S. Hernandez, T. Tsang, C. Bascom-Slack, and N. Broderick (2022). Tiny Earth – A Research Guide to Studentsourcing Antibiotic Discovery [Revised Ed.]. XanEdu.

Read:

Section 3: Redefining “Growth” and “Culture,” about how bacteria grow and how to estimate their numbers via serial dilutions
Section 5: Solid Versus Liquid Cultures, about colony morphology

This video shows how to describe colonies growing on Petri plates.

Smears

Simple Staining

Gram Staining