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The purpose of heat fixing the bacteria to the slide is so during the gram staining procedure the bacteria doesn't wash off. If you didn't heat fix the bacteria to the slide, it would not stay on the slide.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoit makes the bacteria adhere to the slide so that the bacterial can be stained easily.
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What effect does heat fixing have on bacterial cell size?
it makes cell size shrink
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Why is the slide not heat fixed before negative staining?
First and foremost, the purpose of heat fixing is to drive stain into the bacterial cells, which in this case, you are staining the background, so there is not a need for heat fixing. Next, the process of heat fixing will shrink the cell by a little. This sorts of support the first reason as since there isn't the need to heat fix, then don't. By not heat-fixing, we actually see a more accurate morphology, arrangement and size of thr bacterial cell. Hope that my answers helps 😊
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