What is the purpose of using the streak plate method?

Q: Define the sub coating technique

A: Tablets solid formulations that undergo several modifications in the body. So, to decrease the loss…

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 is the purpose of this subculture procedure? In general, how is this carried out in tissue…

A: Introduction: Microbiology is the study of microbes that cause disease in humans, including their…

Q: Difference between streak plate method and serial dilution

A: Ans: Streak plate method- It is a technique used mainly to isolate pure culture of bacteria from…

Q: In zone electrophoresis, why is it possible to isolate the components of a sample and recover them…

A: Introduction :- Electrophoresis is a laboratory technique used to separate and analyze DNA, RNA,…

Q: What are the pros and cons of using the TCE stain-free method versus a traditional gel staining…

A: PAGE (polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) is a well-known method for separating, detecting, and…

Q: What is the purpose of chewing gum in the Snyder Test procedure outlined?

A: Dental caries is the disease of teeth in which microbes demineralize the teeth leading to a cavity.…

Q: Why was a blood agar, rather than a nutrient agar, plate used for the culture from your mouth?

A: Cultured bacteria are any bacteria that grow in the lab by the microbiologist using the required or…

Q: Draw a alternative to the Kirby-Bauer procedure.

A: Introduction: The Kirby-Bauer procedure is also known as the disk diffusion method. It is a…

Q: How will you prevent the occurrence of the bacteria present in the Rapid Strep A Test?

A: Answer:  Rapid Strep A Test (Rapid strep test) is a test used to identify the presence of Strep A…

Q: What pathogenic agent undergoes the Sigmoidoscopy Material procedure?

A: The sigmaidoscopy procedure test uses a thin flexible tube with a camera and light on one end. The…

Q: What is the application of differential centrifugation?

A: In the laboratories, different kinds of techniques and devices are used to separate components of a…

Q: Why is it important to use a sterilized loop between streaks when preparinga streak­plate?

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

Q: What is the significance of heat fixing the smear?

A: Gram staining is a common laboratory technique in microbiology that is used to differentiate…

Q: Where should a label be written on an agar plate?

A: The aseptic technique is applied in a laboratory setup to reduce the risk of contamination. It…

Q: Why do serial dilution? Does serial dilution make it easier to count bacteria on a spread/streak…

A: Dilution is the process of making a solution weaker or less concentrated.

Q: What are the equipments/ materials used in imoobilizing and separating cells when using: spread…

A: Aseptic techniques refer to any method which is used to sterilize and maintain sterility of the work…

Q: What does a white colony indicate during blue-white screening? Explain how the color is formed.

A: Gene transfer is a method in which genetic material is transferred from one bacteria to the another.…

Q: What is the purpose of a streak plate and how do you know one was successful? Explain.

A: In microbiology, the Streak plate method is used to get pure isolated colonies. As we know that a…

Q: Why would you use one single colony for both streaks on a plate and inoculate a culture for plasmid…

A: Introduction Plasmids are important for the transformation of bacteria. They are used as vectors and…

Q: What is the principle involved in the Acrolein test? What is its purpose?

A: Qualitative tests are the chemical or physical tests involved in identification of certain…

Q: Create paragraphs to differentiate among the following terms: positive stain, negative stain, simple…

A: An organic molecule with a benzene ring, a chromophore, and an auxochrome group is known as a…

Q: What is the focus of the Housemann-Rodrik-Velasco growth diagnostic framework?

A: This growth diagnostic framework was give by Hausmann-Rodrik-Velasco.Framework suggests an…

Q: What is the purpose of making a serial dilution?

A: Given: In microbiology, serial dilutions (log dilutions) are used to reduce the bacterial…

Q: what are the important principle in invertase test?

A: The invertase enzyme catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into its components glucose and fructose.…

Q: a specimen from an infected wound has been submitted to the clinical laboratory. explain in detail…

A: Viruses, bacteria, fungus, protozoa, and helminths are the five types of disease-causing agents…

Q: step by step process of Methyl Red test using a schematic diagram

A: The Methyl Red Voges Proskauer protocol is used to identify and differentiate the microbes based on…

Q: Explain the test to perform by gel electrophoresis?

A: DNA is separated according to its size by a process known as Gel electrophoresis. Since DNA is a…

Q: How can a suspect bacterium be fingerprinted?

A: DNA fingerprinting is a technique for detecting a high number of minisatellites in the genome at the…

Q: What is the principle behind invertase test

A: Invertase was an enzyme that hydrolyses the disaccharide sucrose into monosaccharides glucose and…

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 is the purpose of the steam in spore stain?

A: Small tiny objects which are not viewed by the naked eye are called microbes. The microbes are seen…

Q: Describe the procedure and purpose for making streak plate.

A: Streak plates involves the streaking of the inoculum over the surface of the agar resulting in its…

Q: What is the purpose of a streak plate? Name another means of achieving the same purpose?

A: While experimenting on microorganisms, we make use of Petri plates when using solid or semisolid…

Q: What is the advantage of cryo-sectioning for antibody staining methods?

A: To study the antigenic structures, present on the cell surface tissues can be embedded in paraffin…

Q: What is the mordant in the spore stain?

A: A mordant is any substance, which is used as a fixative to bind the dye on the substance.

Q: How will the staining appear if if the destaining step were done at high temperature?

A: Staining is a method of selectively colouring the components of a sample, such as a cell or tissue,…

Q: What about the negative stain positive and negative results?

A: Staining technique is a technique used in microbiology in which microbes are stained for determining…

Q: Outline in detail the procedure for celloidin embedding .

A: Embedding is that the method during which the tissues or the specimens are capsulate in a very mass…

Q: What are the key points necessary for proper collection ofclinical specimens, and why is it…

A: Clinical specimens are those biological specimens taken from a patient's body that will be used for…