16/12/14
 Today we have our class at Biotech 2.2.We learn about culturing ad maintaining  microbes.
Aseptic technique-carrying out a procedure under controlled conditions in a manner that will minimize the chance of contamination.
 Sterile hood- all manipulations must be carry out in a sterile cabinet.

Before this I thought before doing cultivation of microbes we just need to wash the apparatus with just distilled water same as other experiments but it is more than that.It is show that a small contaminate can bring big effect to the results of the culture.

Basic culturing technique
-liquid culture
-culture plate
Different  types microbes need different type of medium.Before this I thought all types of microbes use the same medium but I was wrong. I wonder how was the recipe different for each type of microbe.Does it has differ form the amount,ingredient or temperature to make the medium?

Pure culture-population of identical cells originating from a single cell

streak dilution plate
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Pour plate method

Special Culture technique
Anaerobic culture methods
  • Anaerobic jar

Anaerobic chamber
There are may new apparatus I have know when learning this. Some apparatus are small,I thought that these are not costly but there are some costly.
What I have learn:
-Two basic culture techniques
  • liquid culture
  • culture plate
-Pure culture is a populatio of identical cells originating from a single cell
-Pure culture obtain by working in aseptic environment

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