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microbio lab

1.

Why don't you make any transfers over your books and paper?

You may inadvertently contaminate them

2.

What is a medium that contains living microbes?

A culture

3.

What do you need to do if you don't understand the instructions?

Ask the professor I am assuming

4.

What do you use to obtain separated microcolonies?

Streak plate method

5.

What can you see?

Gram-positive S.aureus

6.

What kind of method is better when you have diluted samples?

Serial dilution method

7.

What are the hanging drop steps in order?

-Place a small drop of bacterial culture on a coverslip,

-Seal the coverslip with petroleum jelly around the edge of a concave slide

-Then invert the slide with the droplet hanging in the depression, and observe under a microscope

8.

How should you not handle glassware?

Carry glassware by its neck or side, use one hand to carry glassware, stand or walk on broken glass, put broken glass into a regular waste basket, etc.

9.

In what type of bacteria can catalase be found?

Aerobic bacteria

10.

What are the chemicals that develop color as they oxidize?

Tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPD)

11.

What kind of experiments can you do in the laboratory?

this is self explanatory

12.

What can you see?

Gram-positive spirillum

13.

What enzyme transforms hydrogen peroxide into water and gaseous oxygen?

Catalase

14.

What kind of method uses 3 streaks?

T-streak method

15.

What is tolerated in the laboratory?

Self explanatory

16.

what can you see?

Gram-negative cocci

17.

What is it called when you have a culture with two or more species?

Mixed culture

18.

Which characteristic indicates that you prepare all the materials you need before starting the experiment and put it following the exercise procedure steps?

Being prepared?

19.

What is a substance designed to reduce the number of pathogens on a surface or in liquids?

Chemical germicides

20.

What is this? (in OF)

control

21.

What is this? (in OF)

Fermentation, E.coli

22.

What is this? (in OF)

control

23.

In what type of bacteria can't catalase be found?

Obligate anaerobic bacteria

24.

What method is this?

Zig-zag streak

25.

In the oxidase reaction, what is the enzyme that changes the color?

Cytochrome oxidase

26.

What is a substance designed to reduce the number of pathogens in living tissue?

Antiseptics

27.

What method is this?

Quadrant streak

28.

If you carry a microscope, what should you not do?

Do not grasp it by the stage, eyepieces, objective lenses, or other small parts.

Always hold it by the arm and base with both hands for proper support.

29.

What kind of method uses 4 streaks?

Quadrant streak

30.

What is this? (in MacConkey)

Non-lactose fermenting colonies

31.

What is the shape of your stain sample?

How to do a simple stain:

1. Sterilize inoculating loop

2. Obtain your sample and spread it on the slide

3. Allow the sample to air dry for 1 min

4. Fix the sample to the slide (pass over the flame)

5. Flood sample with simple stain (crystal violet, safranin, methylene blue)

6. Let the stain sit for 1 min

7. Rinse with DDH2O

8. Place the coverslip onto the slide

9. Look under the microscope

32.

What can you see?

Gram-negative rods

33.

What word do we use for something without contamination?

Uncontaminated

34.

What is a substance designed to reduce the number of pathogens on a surface?

Disinfectants

35.

What can you see?

Gram-positive rods

36.

What can you do in the laboratory?

Self-explanatory