1 Wisconsin Heat Awareness Day will be observed on Thursday, 13 June 2013. 2  Wisconsin, along with the rest of the nation, observes Lightning Awareness Week from 23 to 29 June 2013. 3  Since Wisconsin borders on two of the Great Lakes, rip currents can pose a hazard to swimmers.
Growth of obligate anaerobes. The mixture of necessary nutrients can be used as a liquid medium, or a solidifying agent can be added. Agar agar is a natural polysaccharide produced by marine algae and is the most commonly used solidifying agent added to media (end concentration usually 1.5 % w/v). If hydrolysis of the agar is suspected, a silica gel is used as a replacement solidifying agent.
Starch agar is a differential medium that tests the ability of an organism to produce certain exoenzymes, including a-amylase and oligo-1,6-glucosidase, that hydrolyze starch.tarch agar is a simple nutritive medium with starch added. Since no color change occurs in the medium when organisms hydrolyze starch, we add iodine to the plate after incubation. Iodine turns blue, purple, or black (depending on the concentration of iodine) in the presence of starch.