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Questions

1. The streak plate procedure is a bacterial procedure using solid bacterial media whereby if it is done properly, we can potentially obtain pure cultures or clones of bacteria.

2. Inversion of the viewed image occurs with our light microscopes. Therefore, if you were viewing the letter 'e as one example, it would appear upside down from the way it was placed on the stage Also, when one moves the slide left, the image moves right and vice versa.

3. When carrying out the simple staining and Gram staining procedures. before we heat fix the specimen, it is unnecessary to air dry completely a smear of bacterial cells.

4. To get well-isolated colonies using the quadrant streak plate method as performed in our lab, it is necessary to flame the loop how many times?

5. In class you viewed a wet mount of Bacillus subtilis (done as a demonstration). It was really easy to view important details of the B. subtilis bacteria such as their shape when seen as clear bacteria against a clear background.