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Aside from the inoculating needle, an inoculation loop, is a simple tool used mainly by microbiologists to retrieve an inoculum from a culture of microorganisms. Its tip is a wire made of platinum or nichrome, the latter being inferior but less expensive. The wire forms a small loop with a diameter of about 5 mm. This loop is handy for taking an inoculum from a liquid by using the phenomenon of surface tension. It is also called a smear loop, inoculation wand or microstreaker,
The loop is used to cultivate microbes in Agar jelly and to use the streak maneuver to transfer microbes.
The inoculation loop is always sterilized in a flame until it becomes red hot before and after each use. By doing this, the same tool can be reused in different experiments without fear of cross-contamination. After flame sterilization, the loop must be cooled so that the next cells to touch the loop don't instantly die.
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∙ 9y agoThere are several other inoculating instruments than just inoculating needles. They include cotton swabs, glass spreading rods, different types of pipettes, and inoculating lens.
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What is an inoculation chamber?
Inoculating chamber or inoculation chamber is used to a place free from microorganism where we transfer medium and inoculation. This utilized for transferring tissues and other tissue culture work.
What is the purpose of flaming the loop before and after use?
Inoculating loop is used to inoculate microbial colony or sample on culture medium and to avoid the undesired microbial cells or to avoid contamination flaming of inoculating loop is necessary it is also called as incerination.
Why must it e flamed after making an inoculation?
We use to flame the inoculating loop after inoculation because during inoculation many bacterial cell get attached to loop which can further contaminate the inoculation of other cells so to destroy the previous sticked celled it is necessary to flame burn the loop
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What are other inoculating instruments aside from needle?
Air gun and inoculating loop are some of the another inoculating instruments. The air gun is used to squirt thin stream of vaccine.
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.
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