extra credit we want to find out if our bacteria can ferment

Last updated: 5/13/2023

extra credit we want to find out if our bacteria can ferment mannitol into acid however we do not know whether our bacteria is a halophile or not and there s no way for us to find out whether it can tolerate high salt conditions which media should we use in this case Bile esculin plate test fermentation or phenol red broth containing the appropriate sugar MSA mannitol salt agar plate Mackonkey s plate O EMB eosin methylene blue plate gelatin deep test