ex. 8 streak plating

Question 1

pure culture

Answer 1

result of streak plating

single type of microbe

Question 2

streak plate technique

Answer 2

inoculating loop is used to apply a microbial culture to the surface of a solid culture in a petri dish

Question 3

colony forming unit (cfu)

Answer 3

each cell in a culture

Question 4

the streak plat technique is the most common method to

Answer 4

isolate a species from contaminants

Question 5

main purpose of a streak is to obtain

Answer 5

isolated colonies of bacteria each of which represents a pure culture that multiplied from a single cell