Student assignment:
- You are given with a "pure" culture of E.coli.
a. What can you do to verify its purity?
b. If the culture was not pure what would you notice?
- When you observed your streak plate there was lot of undesired colonies growing in it? What might be the common mode of contamination?
- What is meant by a Bacterial Colony?
- What is meant by Bacterial Growing Media?
- After streak plate is done the plates are incubated upside down. What happens if it is kept upright for incubation?