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Amiraneli [1.4K]
3 years ago
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A student creates a gram stain on a bacterial sample that has a mix of gram-negative and gram-positive organisms. The student ac

cidentally forgets the decolorizer step. What would the outcome of the gram stain be?
Biology
1 answer:
amm18123 years ago
3 0

Answer:

All the bacteria would appear purple(gram- positive)

Explanation:

Gram stain is used for distinguishing gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Gram-positive bacteria appear purple because it does not gets destain after decolorizing step and gram-negative bacteria appears read or pink because it gets decolorized after decolorizing step and then it gets stained by safranin which provides a pink color to gram-negative bacteria.

So if a student forgot the decolorizing step then gram-negative bacteria will not get decolorized and will not take safranin stain so even gram-negative cells will appear violet. Therefore all the bacteria will appear violet or purple(gram-positive).

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