Motility Test Paper

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The three deeps above show motility test. My results are right: very motile bacteria, center: Non-motile bacteria, left: Motile bacteria. The type of instrument used to inoculate a deep is a needle.

Type of media below is right: Slant, center: Broth, and left: Deep. The difference in the media types are slant and deep are solid and contains agar. However, broth is liquid. The instrument I used to inoculate slant : loop, broth: needle or loop, and deep: needle.

I can do to verify its purity by viewing colonial morphology. I will streaking this culture on the plate by using streak plate method and viewing their cellular morphology by preparing a smear. I also view it by using a microscope which it will be 1000x. If the culture was not pure, I would notice the streak plate may have colonies with different colonial morphology, color, and cells. I have to view it in the microscope so it may have different cellular morphology and staining properties. The five ways I can contaminate a culture during inoculation are accidentally touching the loop or needle, not carefully holding the broth and leave it on the table so it will leaking down the tube, working in the lab that have a lot of airborne contaminants which it is mixtures exposure by absorption through skin, a sample open for a long time, and forget to flame the needle, loop, or tube. …show more content…

To avoid it, you need to be careful to handle TSA. Do not open the lid, touching it on the surface, and passing down. You need to make sure to follow the steps and keep the area clean and

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