Standard techniques

Techniques useful in a range of experiments

Here are instructions on how to carry out standard techniques used in a variety of different experiments.

• Making a spread or ‘lawn’ plate
• Pouring an agar plate
• Incubating and viewing plates
• Making a streak plate
• Testing leaves for starch: the technique
• Making a pour plate
• Making a calibration curve for starch concentration
• Making up nutrient agars
• Aseptic techniques