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Yeast colonies will generally be round, smooth, and look wet. (They may or may not be shiny.) Hyphal fungi may or may not be round; they will look more thread-like, stringy, and wispy. Hyphal fungi may also appear powdery due to the production of conidia. (A yeast is a fungus.)
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Importance of flaming the edges of the petri plates before and after pouring the media?
Flaming the edges of the petri plates before pouring the media helps to create a sterile environment by killing any microorganisms present on the surface. Flaming the edges after pouring the media helps to prevent contamination of the agar surface by airborne microorganisms during incubation.
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 equipment can be used to grow bacteria?
Equipment commonly used to grow bacteria includes petri dishes, agar plates, incubators, loop inoculators, and pipettes. These tools provide a controlled environment for bacteria to grow and can help researchers study their characteristics and behaviors.
A mass of bacteria growing in a petri dish?
Any bacteria with right nutrient in vitro can be cultured. This method is very useful when carrying out any experiment. As long as nutrient medium is maintained bacteria will grow with no problems in a petri dish.
U-shaped glas rod in a petri dish?
The U-shaped glass rod in a petri dish may be used for bacterial inoculation or streaking. The unique shape allows for easy manipulation and streaking of bacterial colonies on agar plates for isolation and identification purposes in microbiology. It helps to spread the inoculum evenly across the surface of the agar without damaging the colonies.
Can condensation in petri plates be wiped with a towel?
No. It will contaminate the plates.
Why are petri plates inverted for incubation?
it is to prevent the moisture formed due to condensation of the agar ,to mix with the components present in the petri plates, else causes contamination
What is the uses of petri dish in physics?
A Petri dish is a shallow glass or plastic cylindrical dish that biologists use to culture cells, which can be bacteria, animal, plant, or fungus.
What are the differences between agar plates and petri dishes, and how do these differences impact their use in laboratory experiments?
Agar plates and Petri dishes are both used in laboratory experiments for growing microorganisms. The main difference between them is that agar plates are the medium used to grow the microorganisms, while Petri dishes are the containers that hold the agar plates. This impacts their use in experiments because agar plates provide a solid surface for the microorganisms to grow on, while Petri dishes provide a sterile environment for the agar plates to be placed in. This allows for the controlled growth and observation of microorganisms in a laboratory setting.
What is used to sterilize plastic petri plates in plastic wrapper?
Gamma rays
Why are inverted plates during incubation?
Because during incubation moisture will form at the top of the petri dish. Inverting the dish prevents it from dropping into whatever you have in the petri dish.
What is the value of petri plates in microbiology?
It gives microbiologists a way to grow bacteria on a solid medium. This is important if you want to be able to obtain a pure culture, without a solid medium to grow bacteria it would be nearly impossible. On a solid media a single colony can be isolated and used to innoculate a further plate or broth culture. All the bacteria present in a colony should be decendents of a single organism and so be genetically identical. To obtain a pure culture in liquid media, you would have to do numerous serial dilutions which is very labor intensive compared to streaking a solid medium. Even after many serial dilutions there would be no way to ensure a pure culture.
How can one accurately measure bacterial growth in a petri dish?
To accurately measure bacterial growth in a petri dish, one can use a method called colony counting. This involves counting the number of visible bacterial colonies that have formed on the agar surface of the petri dish. This can be done using a colony counter or by manually counting the colonies. Additionally, measuring the diameter of the colonies can also provide an estimate of bacterial growth.
What color does Candida fungi appear on Petri plates?
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What is the value of petri plates in micro biology?
The facecious answer is about 20 cents. Petri dishes are used to grow all manner of micro-organisms using a variety of media (food) for the bugs to grow on. Penicillin was discovered accidently growing on a petri dish this accidental discovery has saved probably 100s of millions of lives.
Why are the bottoms of petri plates labeled rather than the lid?
1) The bottom of the plate contains the agar and your experiment, if the lid gets lost but the bottom is labled you haven't lost any work. If you label the lid and the lid gets lost you won't be able to identify your experiment. You would have to start from the beginning, making plates, sterilizing plates, doing the experiment; perhaps not an option if it were a clinical sample. 2) The plates are placed in the incubator with their bottom half upper most. This is done to prevent droplets of moisture falling from the lid and smearing the culture. As the bottom is upper most when you are looking in the incubator it makes sense to label the bit you can see most easily.
Importance of flaming the edges of the petri plates before and after pouring the media?
Flaming the edges of the petri plates before pouring the media helps to create a sterile environment by killing any microorganisms present on the surface. Flaming the edges after pouring the media helps to prevent contamination of the agar surface by airborne microorganisms during incubation.
