fundamental skills for the microbiology laboratory, examine the quadrant streak and T- streak plates. Have your lab partner write a critique of your isolation technique in the space below. The following should be addressed: was isolation produced on one or both plates? On the quadrant streak

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Microbial Isolation

Isolation of the microorganisms in microbiology is the process of developing a pure culture by separating one species of microbe from a mixture of many other species. A pure culture is a culture that contains only one species of microbe.