What are the merit and demerit of liquid culture media
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Liquid culture is a combination of a sterilized nutritious solution, usually a mixture of water and various types of sugars inoculated with mycelium or fungus spores.
Advantages of liquid culture- Liquid culture is suitable to use in test tubes to grow bacteria, and may reveal information about the oxygen(O₂) requirements of growing bacteria within.
Disadvantages of liquid culture- Bacteria that grow in liquid media may not have specific characteristics.Difficult to isolate different types of bacteria from mixed populations.Bacteria grow diffusely in liquids they produce discrete visible growth in solid media.
A major advantage of using liquid culture is that it makes it so easy to inoculate jars. We don't need to open the jar's lid, we just inject on jars in order to create master spawn through the self - healing injection port.