Nerdy Science Blog

Why do plate streaking? A friend of mine asked.

Why? Because this is one of the best, cheap, easiest ways to isolate a pure culture. And plate streaking can be fun when it come to coloring~

Although this is easy and cheap, it doesn’t mean it is not important. How pure is your culture often determine “dead or alive” of your microbiological experiment; and by mastering this simple technique, it can save your day…

Metallic green E. coli on EMB agar, picture derived from my undergrad thesis.

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It’s good to have dates from different fields so that you can know a lot of things which you’re not suppose to know.

I googled this “Reasons to Date a Microbiologist“.

- We do everything 10x 40x 100x bigger and better
- Size doesn’t matter
- We know the meaning of complement
- We always wear protection and use sterile technique
- We can run our own pregnancy and STD tests
- We do it on a stage
- We don’t wear anything under our lab coats
- We know the importance of direct contact during conjugation
- We wash our hands before and after everything
- We love Coronavirus with a lime

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