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What is responsible for solidifying nutrient agar plates?
Agar
What is the function of agar in Potato dextrose agar?
solidifying agent.
Where does the solidifying agent agar come from?
Agar is made from seaweed.
Is broth has agar?
no, broth stands for liquid and agar is used as solidifying agent so broth is not containig agar.
Polysaccharide that acts as a solidifying agent in microbiological media?
agar
What is responsible for solidifying nutrient agar plates?
Agar
What is the function of agar in Potato dextrose agar?
solidifying agent.
Where does the solidifying agent agar come from?
Agar is made from seaweed.
What does it mean when Agar is sterilized?
peelo
Is broth has agar?
no, broth stands for liquid and agar is used as solidifying agent so broth is not containig agar.
Polysaccharide that acts as a solidifying agent in microbiological media?
agar
What are agar and what are they used for?
Agar is a chemical obtained from brown algae . It is actually a solidifying agent and used to prepare media for microbial growth .
What is the function of media agar?
Agar, which is a polysaccharide polymer, is a solidifying agent for culture medium. It also provides a solid surface for bacterial growth.
How do you strelise blood agar?
You can't sterilize blood as it would hemolize. Blood is sterilized aseptically when it is purchased-meaning the animal (lets say a sheep) is killed in a certain way to ensure this happens. So the blood in your blood agar plate has already been aseptically sterilized
What was fenny hesse's contribution to microbiology?
She was the first to introduce using agar as a solidifying agent in isolating bacteria, where she assisted the father of practical microbiology Robert koch. Agar(is taken from red algae and it wasn't attacked by most of the bacteria)
Why must the agar be sterilized before being used?
Agar must be sterilized before using because if it isn't. it could grow almost anything from the environment. It would spoil your ability to say which microbe you have being given. I think it would be like saying that you would be breaking the chain of evidence. I know that you would not be able to say for sure what you grew "out".
What is the role of the agar ingredient in culture medium?
Agar is defined as a gelatinous substance obtained from various kinds of red seaweed and used in biological culture media. It is the culture medium.
