BIOS 242Week 1- Discussion 1 VERY HELPFUL

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Micro BIO: Week 1 Discussion 1: 1.) Q.) As a skilled microbiologist, you have been called to Farmer McDonald's farm to investigate an outbreak of sores on the udders of his cows. Your first task ... is to determine whether the causative agent of the sores is a microbe. Explain how you will you use Koch's postulates to accomplish this. A.) Procedure: 1. Determine whether the causative agent in our case microbe, is present in all cases of the disease. 2. We isolate the causative agent from the diseased cows and then grown in pure culture. 3. We introduce the causative agent from the pure culture into a healthy, susceptible laboratory cow. 4. The causative agent is then re-isolated from the new host and closely compared with the originally inoculated causative agent. Applying it: [Show More]

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