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What term describes the morphology of organisms that vary in size and shape? - Pleomorphic Capsules are the basis of which test? - serotyping A mucoid colony on blood agar medium indicates that which of the following characteristics may be present? - Organism has a capsule WHat are the dark staining granules called? - metachromatic Which organisms are nonmotile? - Shigella and Klebsiella In the bacterial growth cycle, growth ceases because nutrients are exhausted or toxic metabolic products have accumulated in which phase? - Stationary phase Which genera of bacteria form spores - Bacillus and Clostridium What term is used to describe bacteria that grow in the absence of atmospheric oxygen and obtain oxygen from oxygen-containing compounds? - anaerobes