Streak Plate Worksheet
Streak Plate Worksheet
Streak Plate Worksheet
2. Examine your isolation streak plate. (Attach a photo of your streak plate – original image)
Did you obtain single, isolated colony? (Upload another photo, draw circle over your single,
isolated colony).
3. How can you determine if the colony that you chose to isolate is a pure culture?
4. Does each discrete colony represent the growth of one cell? Explain your answer. Why can a
single colony on a plate be used to start a pure culture?
6. In the streak-plate technique, how are microorganisms diluted and spread out to form
individual colonies?
7. Which area of a streak plate will contain the greatest amount of growth? The least amount
of growth? Explain your answers.