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What equipment can be used to grow bacteria?
Agar and petri dishes.
How does the bacteria remain uncontaminated when the covers slightly ajar after pouring nutrient agar into petri dishes?
This may be a better way to ask this... When pouring Nutrient agar into Petri plates, the procedure instructs you to keep the covers slightly ajar. Explain why the plates don't get contaminated from organisms suspended in the air?
What is alger plates?
Do you mean "agar plates"? Agar agar is a seaweed that, when boiled, makes a product similar to gelatin. This stuff is edible, so vegans who liked jello can have it. It's used by boiling it in water, adding things to it, pouring it into petri dishes and letting it harden to use in making bacteria cultures. Some of the things that are added to it are beef broth--"nutrient agar"--and blood--"blood agar."
What is nutrient medium?
agar. the jello-like substance in a petri dish. it provides necessary sugars, etc for microbes to grow in
Why would you grow bacteria in petri dishes?
put agar in a Petri dish, then use a Q-tip to wipe a dirty surface, then spread it on the Petri dish in a zigzag motion, then it will grow over time.
If you use petri dishes for blood do you have to use nutrient agar powder too?
if you use petri dishes do you put nutrient agar in it if your using blood?
What equipment can be used to grow bacteria?
Agar and petri dishes.
How does the bacteria remain uncontaminated when the covers slightly ajar after pouring nutrient agar into petri dishes?
This may be a better way to ask this... When pouring Nutrient agar into Petri plates, the procedure instructs you to keep the covers slightly ajar. Explain why the plates don't get contaminated from organisms suspended in the air?
What is a laboratory cork borer and how is it use?
to bore holes in rubber stoppers or to cut out pieces of agar in Petri dishes
What is alger plates?
Do you mean "agar plates"? Agar agar is a seaweed that, when boiled, makes a product similar to gelatin. This stuff is edible, so vegans who liked jello can have it. It's used by boiling it in water, adding things to it, pouring it into petri dishes and letting it harden to use in making bacteria cultures. Some of the things that are added to it are beef broth--"nutrient agar"--and blood--"blood agar."
What is nutrient medium?
agar. the jello-like substance in a petri dish. it provides necessary sugars, etc for microbes to grow in
Why would you grow bacteria in petri dishes?
put agar in a Petri dish, then use a Q-tip to wipe a dirty surface, then spread it on the Petri dish in a zigzag motion, then it will grow over time.
Can you use blood to grow bacteria on petridishes?
Bacteria will grow in blood but no the growing medium in petri dishes should be clear agar.
What is the nam of petri dish gel?
The gel in a Petri dish is called "Agar".
Why people keep praising themselves?
cause they think they're awesome .. betta question where the fark do i get blood agar petri dishes for my srp :|
What is nutrient agar?
simply agar medium
If an organism can grow on both a nutrient agar and a MacConkey Agar on which would you expect it to grow better?
The organism would be expected to grow better in nutrient agar. Nutrient agar is rich in nutrients and microorganisms grow well when there is availability of nutrients.
