Question

When are you able to use bacterial staining (May be more than one answer)?

A) Figuring out pathogens

B) Treating infections

C) Labeling infectious diseases

D) Observing microbial morphology

E) Classifying organisms

Answer 1

A) Figuring out pathogens

It helps to figure whetherr the organisms are gram negative or gram positive ( Gram staining ) which helps to narrow down the pathogen associated with a sample.

D) Observing microbial morphology

Different type of staining can be used to stain the cells to study th shape of the cell. For example simple staining can be used to find out whether the bacteria is cocci,rod, or spiral.

E)Classifying organisms

Different type is staining can be used to classify organisms in to bacteria or archae. Gram staining can be used to classify them based on whether they are gram negative or gram positive.