This week I finally got to spend
some time in the lab. During the first couple of days I watched safety videos
and learned about moving around in the Dalby Lab safely.
Finally today I was assigned an
unknown bacteria, Red 5, to identify. It was contained in a test tube.
In order to grow it and be able to
start the dichotomous key, I used two Petri plates and inoculated them with Red
5 using a heat sterilized metal loop. The two platting techniques utilized were
lawn and isolation streak.
The plates were then placed upside down in the
incubator at 36.5°C and colony growth should be visible in a day or so. If I
successfully isolated Red 5 in the Isolation Streak plate, a single line of
colonies should be present.
I am not in the lab on Thursdays, so
I will be posting results and beginning to determine cell and colony morphology
next week.
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