Effect Of Gram Staining On Bacteria

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Most of the results from the science experiments conducted did not occur like they were expected. Most of the results were false negative or false positive due to a human error within preparation of the bacteria slides. For example, the simple stain results for the Corynebacterium xerosis bacteria were inconclusive because they appeared to be very tiny circular dots instead of their usual rod shape. There is a possibility that it could have been the result of overheating the bacteria during the heat fixing process. This also could have been the result of leaving the crystal violet dye on for too long allowing the dye to dry up on the slide. The next example of an experiment’s results gone wrong is apparent in the Gram staining experiment. The

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