MY SUMMER MICROBIOLOGY DICTIONARY

	STAINING: Staining is an auxiliary technique used in microscopy to enhance contrast in the microscopic image. Stains and dyes are frequently used. sentences: Are they blood stains, or mud stains, or rust stains, or fruit stains, or what are they? I vividly remember seeing oily black stains on cairn gorm's snow.   Types of Staining Simple Stain:
	simple stains highlight an entire microorganism so that cellular shapes and basic structures are visible. Simple stains commonly used include methylene blue, Carboniferous, crystal violet, and safranin. A stain is applied to a fixed smear for a certain amount of time and then washed off, and the slide is dried and examined. sentences: Simple stains are composed of a single basic dye. I require between thirty to sixty seconds in a simple stain procedure before rinsing off my slide. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDT82koX7w
	Differential Stain: The dye or stain that is used to differentiate one component or cellular structure from another, or to differentiate an entity from another in a specimen. It does so by colouring a portion of a specimen that remained uncoloured following the first staining using a dye of different color. sentences: Most stains used in microbiology are diffrential stains Gram Stain is a type of diffrential stain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnIDGmgQfk Special Stain:  Special stains are simple stains designed to revel special microbial structures. sentences: There are three diffrent types of special stains. Negative stains, flagellar stains, and flurorescent stains are the three types of special stains. http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/sourab.birla-1408742-seminar-3-special-stains/