Quiet day in the lab today made nutrient…

Quiet day in the lab today, made nutrient agar and MEA plates ready for tomorrow. Todays task was to try and streak plates with bacteria that looked dead. The dried bacterial sample were ‘wetted’ by adding a little Ringers solution and then streaked on nutrient agar (with the exception of the fungi, they were streaked on MEA). Once this was done, a little research was needed to find out the incubation periods for the target bacterial streak plates. On to more research to find out what each colony should look like and whether it is Gram positive or negative. Hopefully we can positively isolate and identify each bacterial culture and create stabs and slopes.