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Bacterial Growth

Bacterial Growth

Q Read about the LB, spread plate, streak plate, and morphology protocols in the lab handouts. Bacteria were inoculated to achieve single colonies on nutrient agar plates or LB agar plates for appropriate temperature and length. Write the results to all of the colonies. Use as much descriptive terminology as you can to describe the following colony morphology (macroscopic qualities),

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Answer the following questions about your colony characteristics. 1. List 3 different ways of achieving single colonies. Spread plate Streak plate method Single cell isolation method 2. Describe ways to increase your ability to achieve single colonies. For increasing the ability to isolate single colonies we could practice the streak plate method in different quadrants. We can increase the ability by taking as small quantity of colony as we can in the inoculating loop.