Background: During a semester project, Sarah, a first-year biology student, is assigned to investigate microbial metabolic processes. She collects environmental samples from various locations on campus, including the surface of a pond, soil from a garden, and the back of a refrigerator in the dorm kitchen. After culturing the samples in the lab, she notices that one of the soil samples shows significant growth of a particular bacterial species, which she learned about in her microbiology course due to its unique colony morphology. The bacterium is identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa.