Colonies develop sub-surface. 3. Streak plate – the original culture is directly diluted across an agar surface using an inoculating loop. This is a simple & rapid method. All of these methods dilute ...

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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 ...

The selective ingredients are the bile salts and the dye, crystal violet which inhibit the growth of Gram-positive bacteria ... form bright pinky-red colonies (plate pictured on the left here).

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 ...