Day 1 Throughout the semester‚ I have learned multiple techniques for identifying bacteria. Learning how to gram stain‚ use specific media such as MacConkey agar‚ and test antibiotics to see which antibiotic would react best against a specific organism. All these techniques helped me prepare for the final lab‚ identification of an unknown bacterium. For the final lab‚ I received the organism “6A”. To start identifying this organism‚ I did a gram-stain to identify if the organism is gram positive
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cells growing on soft agar burst from the viral infection and appears like a hole in the agar. Each plaque is created by the progeny of an individual phage and can thus be counted to determine the number of phage particles in a sample. The purpose of this lab is to employ a plaque assay method to determine the number of infected phage particles in the given sample. Method & Materials: * (6) BHI plates at 37˚C * (5) tubes of 9.0mL TSB broth * (6) tubes of soft agar in a 50˚C water bath
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Systematic Identification of Bacillus subtilis and Serratia marcescens Through a Battery of Tests and Plates Introduction: The purpose of this experiment was to use a systematic battery of tube tests and plates designed to lead to identification of two unknown bacterial species‚ from the combination of all results. A sample of bacteria was used‚ labeled “Sample 4”‚ from which both species was to be obtained‚ one gram positive and one gram negative. Table 1 is a list of the possible bacteria to
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Gram-positive bacteria were observed in the unknown mixed culture (Table 1 and Table 2; Kellenberger‚ 2001). In order to isolate the two different bacteria‚ colonies that grew on the MSA were used to inoculate Gram-positive tests‚ where as MacConkey Agar colonies were used to inoculate Gram-negative tests. Once the colonies were isolated and the appropriate Gram-negative and Gram-positive tests were conducted‚ the identification of both unknown organism were fairly easy. The results from the
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purpose of this study was to identify an unknown bacterium by applying all methods that were previously conducted and learned in the medical microbiology laboratory class. **Materials : 1) Blood agar plate . 2) Mannitol Salt agar (MSA) plate. 3) DNase agar plate . 4) Novobiocin disc . 5) Inoculating loop. 6) flame ( Bunsen burner) . 7) 1N hydrochloric acid (HCl) . 8) Two slides . 9) Plasma tube. 10) 3% Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) . 11) One unknown plate . 12) Crystal
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behaviors of different cellular slime molds were analyzed under different conditions. They found that in D. disciodeum thrived equally on nutrient soil and a non-nutrient agar dishes (Bonner & Lamont‚ 2005). Similarly to the experiment preformed by Bonner and Lamont‚ we evaluated growth patterns of D. disciodeum on non-nutrient agar dishes. Another study conducted by Fisher‚ found that certain genetic factors increase the movement and development of D. disciodeum amoebae within a temperature gradient
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turn pink PEA prevents gram negatives from growing (2) PEA prevents the growth of Gram-negative organisms by disrupting the structure of lipids in the Gram-negative membrane. It also can hamper protein synthesis. Hemolysis is displayed on blood agar plates (2) On the plate the bacteria produces enzymes called hemolysins these enzymes lyse the red blood cells to certain degrees. Bacteria the fully lyse the blood go through beta-hemolysis. Bacteria that partially lyse the blood go through alpha-hemolysis
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allows the GFP gene to be expressed‚ but in both cases bacteria colonies would be present because of the gene of resistance to the antibiotic‚ ampicillin). We essentially made the required transformed solutions--and the controls--swiped them on the agar plate‚ and then observed to see whether or not bacteria colonies grew and whether or not they glowed. Our data fully supported our hypothesis. We can thus conclude that bacteria can take in foreign DNA through the process of transformation and that
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Different Molar Mass on the Diffusion on Substances Lunar-maius A. Gaerlan Group 2 Sec. X – 9l August 15‚ 2012 ABSTRACT The effect of molecular weight on the rate of diffusion was assessed using agar-water gel test. The agar-water gel set up was composed of a petri dish of agar-water gel containing three wells. Drops of potassium permanganate (KMnO4)‚ potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7) and methylene blue(C16H18N3SCl) were simultaneously introduced to each well. Methylene blue‚ having the
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bacterial walls. The solutions and fluids studied were saliva‚ mucus‚ tears‚ a stock solution of lysozomes‚ and distilled water. The solutions were placed in agar containing Micrococcus Luteus and we observed the amount of bacteria that was lyzed around them. The measurements were taken by observing where the agar cleared around the solutions‚ as the agar was cloudy where bacteria was present. I hypothesized that saliva would
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