Essays on Microorganisms

The La Brea Tar Pits, located near Hollywood, California, contain one of the universes greatest troves of Pleistocene dodos. Over one million castanetss have been recovered to so far. Dating from 38,000BC to 8,000 BC, the castanetss represent more than 420 species of animate being, including saber tooth Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelams, dire wolves,…

Dairy production in Zimbabwe is principally from exotic (Bos Taurus) strains of cattle. These cattle have been genetically enhanced progressively since their introduction into the nation early this century. The section will explain the status of crossbreeding in Zimbabwe, means through which this genetic improvement has been achieved and describe the breeding programs currently running…

It was a day like most other, me and my papa were driving through the pasture looking at the cattle. I was lost in thought watching the calves chasing after the truck waiting for food. All of the sudden the truck stopped, quickly scanning the area for a problem, not finding anything wrong, I glanced…

Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary stone, a signifier of limestone composed of the mineral calcite. Calcite is calcium carbonate or CaCO3. It forms under moderately deep marine conditions from the gradual accretion of minute calcite home bases shed from microorganisms called coccolithophores. It is common to find chert or flint nodules embedded in…

Introduction This work of identification of bacterium was performed through different biochemical tests. Unknown cultures were streaked on EMB, SS and MacConkey agar plates to distinguish the lactose and lactose non-0feremnetros and to identify the grams nature of the culture. The culture was also streaked on TSI agar slants to confirm the cultures ability to…