selective medium

C30869
concept

A selective medium is a type of culture medium formulated with specific agents that inhibit the growth of certain microorganisms while allowing the targeted group to grow.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
selective medium canonical 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: selective medium
Generated description
A selective medium is a type of culture medium formulated with specific agents that inhibit the growth of certain microorganisms while allowing the targeted group to grow.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Lowenstein–Jensen medium
Middlebrook 7H11 agar