Likely a sterile medium means an uncontaminated culture (food free of living organisms) that will grow only the new bacteria introduced for analysis. Source(s): http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sterile
Stonepelt was Bluestar's first mentor and a very well-respected senior warrior of ThunderClan. It is revealed in this book that he took her to the Gathering on her second day as an apprentice because she had caught a squirrel very well for a new apprentice, and the squirrel had been as big as she was.
The ancestors of tigers, along with those of jaguars, leopards, lions, snow leopards and clouded leopards, split off from the other ancestral cat lineages early in the evolution of the cat family and today form what is known as the Panthera lineage.igers (Panthera tigris) are the largest and most powerful of all cats. They are extremely agile despite their bulk and can leap between 8 and 10 meters in a single bound. They are also among the most recognizable of cats thanks to their distinct orange coat, black stripes and white markings.