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- If my cultures are suffering severely due to alkaloid production and accumulation in the medium. In that case, how can I overcome this problem?Of what practical importance are air borne microorganisms to the laboratory workers? What precautions should be taken to control laboratory contaminants? Why are petri dishes incubated in an inverted position? Of what advantage is the using a solid and a liquid medium?If my tissue cultures are suffering severely due to alkaloid production and accumulation in the medium. In that case, how can I overcome this problem?
- Of what practical importance are air borne microorganisms to the laboratory workers? What precautions should be taken to control laboratory contaminants? Of what advantage is the using a solid and a liquid medium?During media preparation, you observed that the agar medium did not solidify after sterilization even after incubating it for 1 hour at room temperature. What could be the reason behind this?Why is dilution a necessary part of pure culture preparation?
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- Why is it desirable that most cultures be inspected after 15 to 18 hours of incubation?Why is it best to use sterile distilled water in the preparation of microbial suspension and dry smears for slide preparation? What possible error could happen if a glass slide is reused for slide preparation?Agar is a complex polysaccharide obtained from seaweed and cannot be digested by most microorganisms. Why does this property make agar an excellent solidifying agent for microbiological media?