bacteria, petri dish, physical science, incubate
2006-12-20 08:59:38 · 7 answers · asked by stephanie 1 in Environment
Sometimes doctors will have the lab take a sample from a patient and grow the sample in a dish so that you can tell what bacteria is causing an infection (it's easier to identify once there's more of it.) Othertimes you grow bacteria in order to see if that particular 'culture' has developed resistances to drugs (you smear the drug on the plate, too, and see if it grows over it, which is bad, because it means it has a resistance, or if it dies off around the drug, which means it is sensitive to it.)
2006-12-20 09:03:17 · answer #1 · answered by Cobalt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are few Bacterias used by Biotechnologist. Biotechnologist use these Bacteria in the manufacture of food materials, medicines, drugs, and certain chemicals. For Example, Biotechnologist use bacteria for Genetically Engineering. Here the gene from an organism is removed and pasted in the bacteria. And when done so, the bacterias start multiplying. Then again the gene from that particular bacteria is removed and Pasted in the organism say, goat. when the genes are pasted in this goat it becomes a Transgenic goat. The milk given from this special goat is used for dissolving blood clot in humans.
Therefore bacterias are very useful, and are grown.
2006-12-20 17:23:14 · answer #2 · answered by Akshay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most bacteria grow so quickly (E. coli, used by many scientists doubles approximately every 20 minutes), it's possible to obtain lots of them for experiments. Also, because they are so "simple" (at least compared to eukaryotic cells), they are a good model for trying to understand how more complicated cells operate.
2006-12-20 17:04:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grow bacteria because it's a lot easier than showering.
Scientists grow them to study them. The more we know about them, the better equiped we can be to destroy them or put them to use
2006-12-20 17:07:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pray for Neutron, ya'll...
Bacteria is for good and bad. Helps keep things balanced in certain situations.
2006-12-20 17:10:15 · answer #5 · answered by cute_chocolate_buggie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For food, for medicine, bacteria have many beneficial uses.
2006-12-20 17:07:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because its so much fun to mess with them
2006-12-20 17:01:13 · answer #7 · answered by ajflkajfsalkfsalkfna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋