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Why does a straight inoculating needle used to inoculate an agar deep tube?
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∙ 11y ago
because you want to introduces as little air as possible
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 11y agoto get to the bottom of the tube
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Why must a straight inoculating needle be used when inoculating an agar deep tube?
This is important to prevent the inoculating needle from becoming stuck in the agar, taking out pieces of agar while trying to remove the instrument. This agar will get into the inoculum when sterilizing the needle on the flame, causing contamination to your sample.
Inoculating an agar deep tube?
inoculation needle
What is agar stab?
culture is stabbed deeply into the agar using an inoculating needle....
How inoculating needle use?
Inoculating needle is used like a pen. Hold it like you hold a pen. Inoculating loop and a needle is mainly used to pick a single colony(pure) so u need to be gentle on the agar. practice using an inoculating needle on a paper with pen.
Why do you use an inoculating loop instead of a needle to make the transfer from the culture plates to the culture tubes?
Because the solid media is more dense over a smaller area so a inoculating needle is used to retrieve the specimen. Where as for a liquid medium the specimen is more spread out over the liquid. The inoculating loop can collect more liquid because there is more metal present at the inoculating specimen retrieval point and has the ability to collect liquid in the loop. I'm currently taking general microbiology and my lab book hardly covers this. A.C.
What does it mean to inoculate an agar plate?
to inoculate an agar plate you would place bacteria on the agar to grow
Why did you use an inoculating loop instead of a needle to make the transfers from the culture plates to the culture tubes?
A inoculating loop is used for transfers from culture plates to culture tubes instead of the inoculating needle because the needle could puncture the agar in tube. The loop is much easier as well to get liquid amount into the tube.
When inoculating agar deep stabs why do you have to insert and remove the needle along the same stab line?
To minimize the introduction of unwanted oxygen into the medium.
How do you make a sentence with inoculate?
During the microbiology lab, the students were instructed to inoculate the agar plates with the bacterial culture.
What is an inoculation?
Inoculating needle is used like a pen. Hold it like you hold a pen. Inoculating loop and a needle is mainly used to pick a single colony(pure) so u need to be gentle on the agar. practice using an inoculating needle on a paper with pen.
What is the name of the streak when you apply specimen to agar plate?
It is called a streak plate, inoculating the agar plate with a zig-zag motion.
What is slant broth and deep?
a slant broth is a type of inoculating agar to gather bacterial data from.
