Nutrient Aar Lab Report

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This lab was very helpful because it taught several important procedures needed in many fields. Basically, this lab taught us the proper general protocol to use to obtain and grow the microorganisms we took from the inside of the human mouth. It taught us how to properly stain and mount the samples we grew. Of course it taught us how to view our stained specimen under a light microscope.
Grow the microorganisms we obtained was the first part of the lab. What we used to culture our microorganisms was a Nutrient Agar Plate. Its general purpose is to be a nutrient medium used for the cultivation of microbes. It is frequently used for isolation and purification of cultures. We used the streaking method. Streaking is a technique used to isolate

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