2007-09-29 03:26:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
just to add: when you disturb the surface you get little bits of agar all over the surface. it just makes a mess and can interfere with the bacteria forming nice colonies.
2007-09-29 05:51:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me that there would be a few good reasons.
1. You would probably not get nice colonies to pick from, but one long string of bacteria that would be useless if you were cloning.
2. You could plough them so deep that the agarose would fold back on them and then they wouldn't get the oxygen that most lab bacteria need.
3. Diluting them by means of streaking would be difficult and messy.
2007-09-29 10:59:53 · answer #2 · answered by ADubya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's bad technique & it makes interpretation
more difficult.
2007-09-29 10:57:40 · answer #3 · answered by BB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋