Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Inoculating Broth Tubes and Streak Plates



Today, we inoculated broth tubes with both environmental and our unknown samples using the asceptic technique. We also created a streak plate of our unknown bacteria using the slant tube and asceptic technique. We performed a motility test for both unknown and environmental samples using the inoculating needle and a special 0.4% agar semisolid solution. Next we prepared slides and stained both unknown and environmental bacteria with methylene blue dye. Monica also swabbed our wonderful professor's throat to test for strep throat and the virus's reaction to different antibiotics, more specifically bacitracin and penicillin. We also learned about bacteriophages and prepared a streak plate with a bacteria and T4 bacteriophage to  observe on Thursday.


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