When Looking at a Tube of Thioglycollate Broth, Streamers or Vines

question 6

Multiple Choice

When looking at a tube of thioglycollate broth, streamers or vines and puffballs are visible.What organism grows like this in thioglycollate?

• A)Gram-negative rods (Enterobacteriaceae)
• B)Streptococcus spp.
• C)Yeast
• D)Pseudomonas spp.

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Definitions:

Mean

A measure of central tendency, calculated as the sum of all values in a dataset divided by the number of values.

Geometric Mean

The average of a set of numbers or quantities, computed by taking the nth root of the product of the numbers.

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set, a measure of central tendency.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.