absolutely, if the bacteria you are using on a pour plate method is sensitive to temperatures that are 45C and above it's possible you could be killing them when you pour the agar. If you are looking for another technique for culturing bact...
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A streak plate technique is used to isolate a single species from a mixed species population. You take a small sample of the mixed species on a sterile loop and streak an agar medium into four zones, reflaming the loop between zones. After ...
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Check out this video tutorial on how to streak an agar plate. What's an agar plate? Well, an agar plate is a sterile Petri dish that contains a growth medium (typically agar plus nutrients) used to culture microorganisms. Selective growt...
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The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta brings you this flash animated video tutorial specifically relevant to your student laboratory courses, specifically microbiology. If you're a student at any school of bio...
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The purpose is to take the mixed sample and isolate the bacteria into pure colonies.
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Streak Plate : Pure colonies of bacterial or other microorganisms can be obtained on petri dishes by streak plate. The microbial mixture is transfered to the edge of an agar plate with an inoculating loop or swab and then streaked out over ...
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Not always. Depending on the amount you started with you may get isolated colonies in the 3rd sector.
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