1. Explain why you predicted the colors of colonies grown at different temperatures. Did your predictions about the colo

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1. Explain why you predicted the colors of colonies grown at different temperatures. Did your predictions about the colors of bacteria colonies under different growth temperatures match your results? If not, explain why. 2. Predict what color the bacteria would be if they were cultured and grown at 32°C. Give reasons for your answer. 3. What do you think is the function of prodigiosin? 4. Prodigiosin production is temperature sensitive. What might be the advantage of this to the bacterium? 5. Normal body temperature is 37°C, and normal room temperature is a 22°C. Considering only temperature, do you think that prodigiosin could function effectively as an antibiotic in the human body? Explain your reasoning. 6. Why should you not touch the loop to your fingers, or to any surface when obtaining or transferring bacteria? 7. What is the reason for labeling the bottom of the Petri dish, and not the lid?