Question

Explain the Plaque morphology mutants.

Answer 1

Plaque Morphology. A plaque is a (small) clearing in a lawn of bacteria grown on a plate. This plaque usually indicates the presence of a virus that infects the bacteria and uses it to reproduce (such viruses are called phages). Although some may look similar, each phage forms a uniqueplaque.

Answer 2

Plaque Morphology. ... Plaque morphologies can differ with phage isolate, phage mutations, bacterial properties, and environmental conditions. That latter can include such things as temperate, media chemical make up, the density of bacteria applied to initiate the lawn, and the density of agar present in media, etc.