Lab 5 Organisms

Organisms Introduced in this Lab: 

• Escherichia coli - facultative anaerobe, does not tolerate high salt concentrations 

• Campylobacter jejuni - microaerophile, causes many cases of food poisoning 

• Clostridium sordellii - obligate anaerobe 

• Saccharomyces cerevisiae - halotolerant 

• Staphylococcus aureus - halotolerant 

• Halobacterium salinarium - halophile 

• Pseudomonas fluorescens - psychrotroph 

• Bacillus stearothermophilus - thermophile 

• Bacillus subtilis - obligate aerobe