What is the main advantage of using the slide culture technique for identifying molds?

Q: What is the difference between a mixed culture and a contaminated culture if they both contain more…

A: In microbiology , a bacterial culture is a growth of microorganisms which have been grown in a…

Q: what is the procedure and materials you need to stain Staphylococcus aureus?

A: Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive, round-shaped bacterium hat belongs to the Firmicutes and…

Q: What advantages do solid media offer for the isolation ofmicroorganisms?

A: Micro-organism are those that cannot be seen by the naked eye, but are visible under microscopes.…

Q: What is a mixed culture? A contaminated culture?

A: A microbiological culture, or microbial culture, is a technique for increasing microbial creatures…

Q: In the preparation of a bacterial smear, why is there a need to fix the bacteria to the slide? Aside…

A: Several laboratory techniques necessitate smear preparation. A smear can be made using either broth…

Q: What is agar and why is it necessary for growing bacteria on plates?

A: Agar is a mixture of two polysaccharides- agarose and agaropectin. It is derived from red-purple…

Q: What is the difference between culture-based technique and culture-independent techniques based on…

A: A microbiological culture, also known as a microbial culture, is a way of multiplying microbial…

Q: Which solid media is required when a fungal species needs to be identifiedand studied?

A: Answer- Fungal culture is important to study about various human fungal diseases.

Q: Why is there a need to use a staining agent in observing the specimen?

A: Staining agent:          The things that owes-out stains were recognized as staining agent,…

Q: What are pure cultures and why are they important? How are spread plates, streak plates, and pour…

A: In science and related fields, a culture plate is a low level lined lab holder for growing a layer…

Q: What is the difference between streak plate method and spread plate technique?

A: Answer of the question given below...

Q: What are the advantages and disadvantages of observ-ing living-specimen slides and…

A: Microorganisms are the organisms that are not visible to the naked eye. Their size ranges in few…

Q: why is it necessary to employ a spore stain rather than rely on diagnosis of sporing from…

A: Spores are cellular structures produced by plants, bacteria, and fungi. Spores can be produced for a…

Q: What are the purposes of carrying out the streak plate andpour plate techniques in microbiology?

A: It is a technique used to isolate a pure strain from a single species of microorganism, often…

Q: temperature and light source affect the number and type of colonies that can be found in the…

A: Microbes such as bacteria, fungi, viruses are grown at the earth's surface. The atmosphere provides…

Q: How is the correct way of incubating culture plate media? Explain why is that so.

A: After the way of life medium is set, and streaked with the necessary microbe/stock, the cover is put…

Q: Why is it necessary to perform a negative stain to visualize capsules?

A: Introduction: Negative staining: This uses an acidic stain. The results yield a clear cell with a…

Q: Why might viable cell cultures be of more use in microbialtaxonomy than preserved specimens?

A: Microbial taxonomy is a field of biological sciences that deals with the grouping of microorganisms…

Q: Explain the reason for the effect on mass spectroscopy method of diagnosis by culture conditions.

A: Mass Spectrometry is an analytical method. It is used to quantify known materials to identify…

Q: What are the possible sources of contamination that may result during the streak plate procedure?

A: The streak plate procedure is used to isolate microbial colonies in pure form. During the procedure,…

Q: What is the importance of using a test/control organism in describing the cultural characteristics…

A: The food materials on which the organism is developed is called culture medium and the development…

Q: Which step of the gram stain procedure is most critical?why?

A: Gram staining is one of the most common laboratories test to identify the different bacterial…

Q: Why does fixation of the positive dye help bacteria stick to the slides?

A: Dyes in microbiology are for staining cells; they are used based on the chemical properties and the…

Q: What are the favorable conditions for mold to grow?

A: The mold is the fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae. The molds…

Q: Why is it necessary to perform a plate count in conjunction with the turbidimetry procedure?

A: Plate counting is one of the most fundamental techniques used in microbiology. It is used to…

Q: What other fields of science besides microbiology is the aseptic technique used?

A: Aseptic technique refers to the procedures that prevent the contamination of microorganisms. They…

Q: What is the main difference between plates before and after centrifugation? What may be the purpose…

A: Answer: CENTRIFUGATION = It is the process involving mechanical force that is centrifugal force,…

Q: List the step-by-step procedure of Gram staining.

A: Gram staining, established by Danish Microbiologist Hans Christian Gram in 1884, is by far the most…

Q: How does the agar dilution method differ from streaking toobtain isolated colonies?

A: Both these are methods to culture microorganisms and have their respective pro and cons as mentioned…

Q: What is the nature of samples that should NOT be placed inside the drying-oven?

A: According to the question, we have to explain the nature of the samples that should not be placed…

Q: what is the function of each one of the Gram-stain reagents?

A: Gram staining is the technique used to classify the bacterial species into broad groups based on the…

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: Why can't gram staining be used for mycobacterium?

A: Gram staining is one of the staining techniques. This is usually used for differentiating between…

Q: Since the dyes for the Gram stain are not specific to the bacteria theystain, what mistakes in the…

A: Gram staining is a technique used for staining the microbial samples. It was performed by the…

Q: what are the reagents for the four major steps of the gram stain procedure

A: Gram staining protocol is used to differentiate between Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria by…

Q: What are the advantanges and disadvantages of using stained preparations for observing microbial…

A: Characteristics of microbes are studied using a microscope by microbiologists. Some microbes like…

Q: What is the Fluorochrome staining technique for Mycobacterium

A: Mycobacterium - they are a type of germ. There are different kind of mycobacterium. Still others…

Q: Why is it necessary to cut thin sections of the tissue sample from a specimen using a microtome?

A: Microtomes are specialized cutting instruments that produce very thin slices of tissues so that the…

Q: Why sometimes specimen may show organisms under the microscope but not appear in the culture media?

A: Introduction  We are surrounded by various pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungus etc. Bacteria…

Q: Why do petroleum-degrading bacteria need to attach to thesurface of oil droplets?

A: Petroleum is a crucial strategic resource and all countries compete fiercely for it. The…

Q: How to prepare an agar plate for bacteria? How to include the antibiotics into agar plates? How long…

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Q: What method can be used to achieve sterilization?

A: It is required to describe the method to be used to achieve sterilization.

Q: explain why you would expect to see similarities in the types of colonies on the fomite plates and…

A: Organisms that are too small to be seen by the naked eye are microorganisms. These organisms can be…

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: What is the purpose of using the streak plate method?

A: Solution-  Introduction -  Streak plate technique is used  for the isolation into a pure culture of…

Q: What is the goal of isolation streak plate technique? Why is microbial considered a pure culture?

A: Streaking : Streaking for isolation on an agar plate involves the successive dilution of organisms…