Gram staining

Happy sunny morning!!!

I came the busy lab in Saturday morning and did few gram staining experiments for caeni 2 and caeni 3. Both of them are Gram positive bacteria.


  • Gram positive bacteria: Dark purple
Caeni 3
  
  • Gram positive bacteria  :               Dark purple
Caeni 2 






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