Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
You begin your shift at the inner city outreach clinic when a young woman enters crying. She is 19 years old and 28 weeks pregnant with her second child. Her complaint is that she woke this morning leaking clear to milky-colored fluid vaginally. Her first child was born 6 weeks early due to premature rupture of membranes and she is worried this is happening again. You reassure the patient, and explain that a vaginal speculum exam will be performed and specimens will be taken for examination. Once obtaining the proper specimens, you label them appropriately, and send the wet mount and culturette to the laboratory for processing.
-The patient asks how microbes from her body can be grown in the lab.You explain that specimens are introduced to nutrient medium and that any growth of the microbe that appears after incubating the specimen is called the

A) colony.
B) culture.
C) microorganism.
D) infectious agent.