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Lab 5: Direct Stain and Indirect Stain

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    A. INTRODUCTION TO STAINING

    DISCUSSION

    In our laboratory, bacterial morphology (form and structure) may be examined in two ways:

    • by observing living unstained organisms (wet mount), or
    • by observing killed stained organisms.
    • see greater contrast between the organism and the background,
    • differentiate various morphological types (by shape, arrangement, gram reaction, etc.),
    • observe certain structures (flagella, capsules, endospores, etc.).

    The procedure for heat fixation is as follows:

    Shape =

    Arrangement =

    Contributors and Attributions

    • Dr. Gary Kaiser (COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, CATONSVILLE CAMPUS)


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