You are working in a laboratory, making media for growing bacteria. The recipe you are following calls for the addition of TRIS buffer. You can't find any TRIS in the lab, so you decide to leave it out of the medium. Select the False statement regarding your decision.

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You are working in a laboratory, making media for growing bacteria. The recipe you are following calls for the addition of TRIS buffer. You can't find any TRIS in the lab, so you decide to leave it out of the medium. Select the False statement regarding your decision.

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EA) The statement that bacteria live within a narrow pH range, near pH 14, is false because most bacteria thrive in or near neutral pH conditions, not at the extreme alkaline condition of pH 14.E) This statement is actually true, not false. It correctly notes that bacteria generally require a near-neutral pH environment to grow effectively, which contradicts the instruction to select the false statement.

You Are Working in a Laboratory, Making Media for Growing