Reason – this allows the bacteria to spread out and to grow in individual colonies on the agar plate. A lawn of bacteria can be produced by using a sterile spreader to evenly spread the bacteria ...

There are no notable zones around the colonies. Staphylococcus epidermidisis gamma-hemolytic. Often when inoculating a BAP to observe hemoloysis patterns, investigators will also stab several times ...

Over the next few sessions in lab you will be learning how to isolate bacterial colonies into individual species. This allows for the creation of a pure culture, a culture of bacteria containing only ...

Select several colonies, grow each in 5 ml of 2YT medium ... at 37 °C for 1 h and then plate them on doubly selective LB agar plates (100 μg/ml ampicillin and 35 μg/ml kanamycin).