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Give one reason for not digging the loop into the surface of the agar when preforming a t-streak.

What would the effect of condensation on the lid of your plate dripping onto the surface of your streak?

How could a streak plate be contamintate?

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Related questions

In a quadrant streak, why do you intersect the previous lines and not the ends of the streak?

Select one:

a. More cell amount variability at ends, usually higher cell population

b. Keep streaks in the middle of the plate

c. Prevent cell death

d. To maintain a mixed culture

e. To count CFUs

How should you hold the inoculating loop?

Select one:

a. Maintain it at an angle at all times

b. In a test tube rack at all times

c. Like a pencil

d. Balanced on top of the tube

e. With dish gloves

Which of the following is used in the spread plate and not the streak plate method?

Select one:

a. Glass spreading rod

b. Flame loop

c. Agar plate

d. Bunsen burner/sterile utensil

e. Starting culture to sample

What would likely happen if the inoculum was not spread adequately over the agar surface?

Select one:

a. Contamination

b. Degradation

c. Sterilization

d. Uneven distribution

e. Cells will not grow

You have a mixed culture of unknown bacteria and want to identify one of the species by several subsequent experiments (needing multiple colonies of a pure culture). You do a quadrant streak and transfer to a sterile liquid medium. What next step makes the most sense?

Select one:

a. Perform a Gram stain

b. Note all colony morphology characteristics

c. Use the spread plate method or new streak plate on an isolated colony of the plate

d. Quantify the cells

e. Repeat using the other two methods of isolation

What would likely occur if the flame loop was not sterilized between streaks on the quadrant streak method?

Select one:

a. Bacteria will not stick to the loop

b. Virus will be introduced

c. Flame loop will be too hot

d. The sample will be contaminated

e. Subsequent streaks would have more colonies

Why is the glass rod in the spread plate method put in alcohol and ignited instead of sterilized like a flame loop?

Select one:

a. Glass oxidizes

b. Glass melts

c. Glass takes longer to cool

d. Glass burns

e. Glass is more sterile

Considering the cultures to be used for inoculating each medium in this exercise, how many microbial types should you expect to see in/on each medium?

Select one:

a. 3

b. 0

c. 1

d. Several

e. 2

Which of the following is common to minimize airborne contamination?

Select one:

a. Make someone else do the experiment

b. Perform the experiment in a windy room

c. Keep a microscope nearby

d. Breathing in sample

e. Hold open tubes at an angle

How can a hot sterile flame loop be cooled quickly to use in the next streak?

Select one:

a. Put in sterile portion of agar plate

b. Blow on it

c. Stick the loop in ice

d. Set the loop on the lab bench

e. Pour tap water on the loop

True or false: Most colonies can been seen without aid (naked eye), and most single cells cannot be seen without a microscope.

Select one:

True

False

An isolated, single colony forms after incubation of a:

Select one:

a. Virus (viral particle arrangement in some cases)

b. Single cell (cell arrangement in some cases)

c. Sterile agar plate

d. Sterile flame loop

e. Liquid mixed culture

These are commonly used for growing stock cultures that can be refrigerated for several weeks:

Select one:

a. Broth tubes

b. Cotton swabs

c. Gym socks

d. Agar slants

e. Petri dishes

Beginning at the base of the slant surface and gently moving the loop back and forth as you withdraw is called:

Select one:

a. Slant mixing

b. Fishtail inoculation

c. Zig-zag streaking

d. Squirrel inoculation

e. Quadrant streaking

If you are going to mix a broth culture prior to transfer, what is a safe way to do this without special equipment?

Select one:

a. Tap the tube with your fingers

b. Vortex it

c. Use a inoculating loop

d. Stick the tube in the outer cone

What is the primary purpose of the streak plate method?

Select one:

a. Quantify CFUs

b. Isolate an individual colony

c. Quantify the cell count of a mixed culture

d. Inoculate a culture on a plate

e. Confirm the identity of an unknown genus

I have some question about Colony PCR:

1. pGLO causes the transformed colonies to glow. Why do we use ampicillin selection plates when we can identify transformed bacteria optically.

A. ampicillin increases GFP expression

B. ampicillin reduces competition from untransformed bacteria

C. ampicillin is not necessary

D. ampicillin is necessary because we are not using aseptic/sterile technique

2. When picking colonies for 'Colony PCR',

A. take a large streak from the densest part of the bacterial lawn

B. choose the center of a small colony

C. dig the agarose from underneath a small colony

D. combine 2-3 small colonies

3. In colony PCR a good positive control would be ....

A. the plasmid from the transformation

B. a section of the bacterial lawn

C. a liquid culture of the same colony

D. a master mix with no PCR primer

4. If colony PCR shows a band of the correct size, when is sequencing required?

A. to make sure the correct gene is being expressed

B. to determine orientation of the gene

C. to confirm point mutations

D. both B and C

5. How do you grow the bacteria from the PCR positive colony after colony PCR?

A. You can't, PCR kills the bacteria. Just pick another colony

B. Streak the PCR products on an AMP agarose plate, the bacteria will grow just fine.

C. Don't add the entire colony to the PCR master mix

D. Re-transform bacteria assuming the same transformation efficiency

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