This sample is of soil from a local park. The top plate is PDA and bottom is CMA. There are significant differences in growth between the plates. The PDA media seems to have a lot more orange growth of colonies where as the CMA has mainly small white ones. The PDA media thus would be better to grow more colonies as it has white and a lot of orange growth and the CMA has only small white ones, which could be useful for isolating for those ones specifically

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