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Study Colony lecture notes PDF with microbiology definitions and explanation to study What is Colony?. Study colony explanation with microbiology terms to review microbiology course for online degree programs.

Colony Definitions:

  1. A macroscopically visible cluster of microorganisms in or on a solid medium.

    Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton



  2. A macroscopic cluster of cells appearing on a solid medium, each arising from the multiplication of a single cell.

    Foundations in Microbiology by Kathleen Park Talaro, Arthur Talaro



Colony Notes:

Colony is defined as numerous individual organisms, especially of the same species, living together in a close association. Colony is the cluster or group of identical cells, known as clones, which are present of the surface or within a solid medium that is derived from one parent cell, as in a colony of bacteria.

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