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Why store bacteria culture in agar slant?
You can easily find a amount of causes any slant is best pertaining to culture storage (and none of these are real scientific!):

1) Surface area - by seeking directly into making your tube at a slant, a person improve the floor as in opposition to merely a flat surface;

2) Dimension - a test tube is significantly much easier to shop when compared to always be able to a beaker - you can suit almost twenty test tubes in the exact same area as one beaker;

3) Moisture - plates, when stored, tend to dehydrate very quickly. a capped tube will retain moisture significantly longer;

4) Ease - while it is a pain to create slants, as quickly as the actual microorganism is transfered, you place it in the frige (2-8 Celcius) and leave it pertaining to up to six months. If you used any plate you'll have to transfer each week; any beaker will mean transfering on a new month to month basis (and these people spill consequently easy!)

One factor for you to remember with regards to slants and storing microorganisms -- the more usually you transfer them, the actual much less such as the 'original' they will become. In your event that you are working with a particular microorganism simply because of a distinctive characteristic attempt the following:

1) grow a very hefty inoculum of the orginal on the plate using approriate medium.



2) Create numerous (5-10) slants coming from that plate.



3) In the event that a person strategy for you agario cheats and hacks to work together together with your microorganism, transfer a fresh culture via certainly 1 of the slants to some couple plates.



4) Use those plates for approximately weekly after which acquire a fresh inoculum in the original slants.

In general, do not necessarily transfer greater than 3 times from your original culture!




 
 
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