Gram stain is a?
Correct Answer: Differential stain
Description: The Gram stain is the most impoant staining procedure in microbiology. It is used to differentiate between gram positive organisms and gram negative organisms. Hence, it is a differential stain. Gram negative and gram positive organisms are distinguished from each other by differences in their cell walls. Ref: Ananthanarayana & panikers 9th edition
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