Essays Tagged: "Serial dilution"

Introduction to Microbiology (CP4089) - Experiment 4: Colony Count Methods: Viable Cell Number of Commercial Active Dried Yeasts

ive dried yeasts (ADY).This experiment allowed the students to perform the plate count technique by serial dilution and two common methods, spread plate and pour plate to determine the colony forming ... d as a colony forming unit (CFU).The sample used in this experiment is active dried yeasts (ADY). A serial dilution is performed to suspend the yeasts containing product in water so that the number of ...

(8 pages) 110 1 4.2 Jul/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology

Serial Dilutions

According to the Environmental Data Standards Council, a serial dilution is a numerical factor representing the number of equal volumes of diluent added to a ... resenting the number of equal volumes of diluent added to a sample (EDSC, 1). The process involving serial dilution is used to set up a series of different sample concentrations for an experiment. To ... iologists, a user-friendly way of making many concentrations of a single solution is to perform are serial dilutions (Abedon, 1-4). For over two hundred years there have been records of scientists usi ...

(4 pages) 34 0 5.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Topic: Cell Free Plasma DNA as a Predictor of Outcome in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

duplicates to ensure precision of the real time quantitative PCR method.A standard curve of 10 fold serial dilution of human genomic DNA (Roche) was used in the analysis of the data as well as chi-squ ...

(2 pages) 1611 0 0.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: Science Essays

Microbiology: Viable Counts

plate method.ii. Most probable number (MPN) method.(i) Spread Plate Method (Lawn Culture)Materials:Dilution series prepared in (A)Sterile 1ml pipette6 nutrient agar (NA) plates1 glass hockey stick1 b ... teps should be done using aseptic techniqueThe culture labeled 10-8 was gently mixed. 0.1ml of this dilution was aseptically transferred onto the center of a NA plate.Bend end of the glass spreader wa ...

(3 pages) 65 0 0.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology