A slow-growing cherry-red colored mold with numerous microconidia and no macroconidia was isolated from a sample of skin scrapings. What two things would you do to identify this organism

1. Growth on cornmeal agar

2. KOH prep

Explanation:

Cornmeal agar is a nutritional deficient media containing :

KOH preparation (10 - 30% ) used to destroy keratin, leaves fungal hyphae.

Hence the organism can easily be identified by these two tests.

sheep is a herbivore animal whereas grasshopper belongs to the class chordates but both of them feed on greens.  

if grasshopper and sheep feeding on a pasture land, i do not think both of them will have any impact on each other. however, the number of the species can make difference. since sheep feed on greens, there is a possibility there left no pasture land for the grasshoppers or they may get extinct.