in preparation for this assay the agar surface is lawn streaked with bacterium to be evaluated what does this mean? what is the objective for doing this?
in preparation for this assay the agar surface is lawn streaked with bacterium to be evaluated what does this mean? what is the objective for doing this?
ANSWER:
the purpose of streaking for isolation of bacteria is to produce isolated colonies of bacteria on an agar plate. This is useful when you need to separate organisms in a mixed culture or when you need to study the colony morphology of an organism.
The inoculum is streaked over the agar surface in such a way that it “thins out” the bacteria.
When streaking for isolation, you will begin by streaking a portion of your agar plate with an inoculum. You will then streak successive areas of your plate in an attempt to dilute the original inoculum so that single colony forming units (CFUs) will give rise to isolated colonies.
Objective
The main objective of streaking in bacteria is to isolate individual bacterial species from a mixture of different bacterial species.
in preparation for this assay the agar surface is lawn streaked with bacterium to be evaluated...
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Dropdown options:
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2-equal to/greater or less than
3-self contained/stand-alone
4-variance/standard deviation
5-variance/beta coefficient
6-diversifiable/non-diversiable
7-is/ is not
8-diversifiable/non-diversifiable
9-random/non random
10-decreasing/increasing
11-2000+/500
12-reduces/increases
13-systematic of market/unsystematic or company-specific
14-diversifiable/non diversifiable
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