Q: Illustrate the step by step method of preparing culture media.
A: Introduction Culture medium:- It is a liquid or gel designed for specific mixtures of nutrients and…
Q: Identify and describe the 4 wet-heat methods that are used to control microbial growth.
A: The different methods used for controlling the growth of microbes by moist heat are boiling,…
Q: Define agar.
A: A dried jelly-like substance called agar, commonly referred to as agar-agar, is made from the red…
Q: define both selective and enrichment media as they may be used in clinical microbiology
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Q: Define sterilization in terms of microbiology.
A: Sterilization is a process by which all the possible living forms like bacteria, fungi, protozoa and…
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A: Many laboratories and biological companies maintain large culture collection centres. These are…
Q: Explain why specimens should be taken aseptically and processed quickly to ensure accurate results,…
A: Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, Achaea, fungi and…
Q: The following media are used to grow bacteria for various purposes. Match the examples of media that…
A: MacConkey Agar: - Selective Growth Medium Malt Extract Agar:- Complex Medium
Q: What is a pure culture?
A: Introduction Culture is referred to th process of growing the cell outside the animal or plant body…
Q: tate the apparatus used view small samples
A: The world is full of organisms. Organisms have developed from minute single celled structures to…
Q: Why would the optical tweezers be a method superior to dilution and liquid enrichment for obtaining…
A: Optical tweezers have been used to trap dielectric spheres, viruses, bacteria, living cells,…
Q: Differentiate moist heat from dry sterilizing heat.
A: Dry heat sterilization:-one of the oldest techniques of sterilisation is dry heat sterilisation of…
Q: Define a pure culture.
A: A microbiological culture, or microbial culture, is a strategy for duplicating microbial life forms…
Q: microbiology: Aseptic Culture Techniques Lab Explain why a loop or needle is flamed before it is…
A: The process of introducing a microorganism in a plate or a tube containing culture media is called…
Q: Can culture media be placed in a freezer? Why or why not
A: Culture media are also called as growth media. They are mixture of nutrients and other substances…
Q: discuss the significance of the different aseptic techniques utilized in maintaining sterility of…
A: The laboratory that carries out growth of prokaryotic cells or eukaryotic cells in physiological…
Q: Why after a certain period the growth rate of the culture decreases until growth stops?
A: Warmth, dampness, pH levels and oxygen levels are the four major physical and chemical components…
Q: What should be taken into consideration in the selection of the culture preservation method?
A: The problem of maintaining microbial culture is one that many fields of microbiology face. The…
Q: What are bioreactors ? How are large volume of culture maintained and processed in them ?
A: A bioreactor is a system that enables organisms (such as yeast, bacteria, or animal cells) to…
Q: The factors for the manipulation of culture medium?
A: Culture medium It is also called a growth medium. It is a solid, liquid, or semi-solid medium that…
Q: Enumerate and describe briefly the components of a culture medium and indicate their uses
A: Culture medium is a preparation for the growth or cultivation of microbes in vitro and includes…
Q: What are the factors which need to be considered in the selection of culture vessel?
A: Culture vessels:- Culture vessels provide a contamination barrier to protect the cultures from the…
Q: Explain the significance of aseptic culture technique in growing microorganism
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Q: What makes a culture media as SELECTIVE? Explain and provide examples of selective type of culture…
A: A culture medium or growth medium is a substance that is used to grow the microorganisms under…
Q: You have a broth medium that you would like to turn into a solid medium in order to do streak…
A: The "nutrient broth" is essentially nutrient agar without the solidifying agent. They stay liquid at…
Q: Compare and contrast pure culture, mixed culture, contaminated culture, and subculture.
A: Culturing is a process of inducing the replication or growth of microorganisms by providing…
Q: Enlist th five differences between crude media and defined media.
A: Microbiology uses different types of culture media for the growth, culturing, and study of different…
Q: Heat-labile material to be introduced to culture medium was filtered using membrane filters with…
A: given that the heat labile material which is introduced to culture media is filtered using a…
Q: What is meant by the term “enrichment culture”?
A: The culture medium or growth medium is the specific medium, which contains all essential nutrients,…
Q: What compounds or chemicals might be added to a medium to make it selective?
A: Culture medium or growth medium is a liquid, solid, or semisolid designed to support the growth of…
Q: To measure the culture temperature, why is the thermometer placed in a tube separate from the…
A: A microbe or microorganism is a microscopic organism that is too small to be seen with the naked…
Q: What is the best streaking technique in a culture media? Explain
A: In microbiology, there are five I's that symbolise five different procedures used in the laboratory…
Q: Differentiate between defined and complex culture media
A: To differentiate: Chemically defined and complex culture media
Q: Differentiate individual sampling and pooled sampling in dissolution.
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Q: Illustrate the different solid tubed media formed 1. Deep/Butt solid tubed media 2. Slant solid…
A: The selection of media is a crucial point in determining the generation of contamination-free…
Q: Which of the following types of media would be appropriate to use in order to culture a fastidious…
A: Answer:- From all the four above-mentioned medias yeast extract media and nutrient media are…
Q: Assume that you had plated your +PGLO culture on an LB agar plate. What result (number of colonies)…
A: +pGLO culture is a type of bacteria that has been genetically modified to produce a fluorescent…
Q: Elaborate on the advantages of examining colony in an agar plate.
A: An agar plate is a Petri dish which have a development medium set with agar, utilised to culture…
Q: What is this media? What type of media is it? Which type of organism can grow on this plate?…
A: Media is... Agar This is the solids type of Media. Organism type... Streak plate technique is used…
Q: Dilute cells from an old culture 1:50 into 200 mL cultures. What volume of the old culture would you…
A: Culture consists of appropriate substances which provides the growth to the desired organisms.
Distinguish batch culture and continuous culture
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- Describe how the streak-plate method is used to obtain a pure culture and how the resulting culture can be stored.Write an introduction related to culture media and isolation of pure culture technique (streak plate and spread plate method)Distinguish the difference between a sterile media plate and a contaminated media plate.
- Please label the figure to demonstrate your understanding of selective and differential media. General-purpose Differential Complex medium Selective medium Simple medium medium mediumdescribe the 3 processes that use moist heat methods specifying time and temperature for each: pasteurization autoclaving tyndallizationCan culture media be placed in a freezer? Why or why not?