Streaking for Single Colonies: The Streak Plate Challenge
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...students transform them into different strains of E. coli,” says Westenberg. During the transformation experiment...different genetic backgrounds of the host strains affect transformation efficiency.
Aside from the Streak Plate...add a bit of fun. He mixed together 10 E. coli strains producing different pigments, and tasked the students...students to separate out colonies from each individual strain using the streak plate technique.
Time for the...single colonies, these chromoprotein-expressing strains are easily amenable to other experiments to teach...