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- Why go to the trouble of creating a master plate (why not simply plate the initial culture on both nutrient agar and glucose-salts agar)?In the Harada-Mori culture technique, how are you going to dispose the culture tubes? Is it suitable to use refrigerated samples for this procedure Why or Why not?How is the correct way of incubating culture plate media? Explain why is that so.
- What are the primary uses of the following preparations of culture media? Agar regular slant Agar special slant Agar deep Broth Agar plateIs is best to observe slides of bacteria stained with the acid fast stain under high dry magnification. True or falseWhy do you think the continuous culture has higher chances of contamination than batch and fed-batch culture?