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Serial Dilution Lab

I have a lab on serial dilution and it's asking for two real world uses for accurate dilutions and I'm stumped...I can't think of anything even though it's a pretty simple question. Can anyone help?

November 9, 2011

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bombinator

You can use it for spread plating, as usually if you use the pure culture broth you'll have too many cell colonies to count (and ultimately get an inaccurate count) so you dilute by factors of 10 and plate them.

Reply November 10, 2011
Bloop28

[quote=Texas]Well did you use the bacteria culture example yet? That's an important one for sure.[/quote]
Thing is, I don't understand it fully so I can't expand on it.

Reply November 9, 2011
Bloop28

I probably didn't. May you care to enlighten me? And if it's on bacteria growth or something like that, I saw it already.

Reply November 9, 2011
fun2killu

you didn't search properly, i'm sorry.

Reply November 9, 2011
Bloop28

It doesn't matter I guess. I'm having a really derpy moment right now.

Reply November 9, 2011
Bloop28

Aha I tried Google and it came up with nothing useful.

Reply November 9, 2011
fun2killu

basil is not your google

Reply November 9, 2011