3. Streak plate – the original culture is directly diluted across an agar surface using an inoculating loop. This is a simple & rapid method. All of these methods dilute or “thin out” a heavy ...

The artists use bacteria as their paint and fungus as their canvas to educate people about the important relationship we have with microbes. The American Society for Microbiology's Agar Art ...

Having spent considerable time on preparation of ‘bottom’ agar plates for the agar layer assay by the plaque count method 1,2 and for high-titre bacterio-phage stock preparation on a large ...

Some species can replicate themselves in as little as twenty minutes. We can grow bacteria in an incubator on plates of agar jelly with time, nutrients, and an optimum temperature. These girls at ...

Pour the sterile agar plates and allow to set fully. Reason - this provides the selected bacterium with all the nutrients needed to grow. Reason - this allows the bacteria to spread out and to ...