What is the purpose of heat fixing a slide?
List the 4 major steps of the gram stain and explain what ishappening to both Gram positive and Gram negative cells in eachstep.
Why don’t we heat fix in the capsule stain?
What are the major things that are done in the acid fast stainprocedure that allow acid fast cells to be stained?
Hypothetically, let's say you perform an endospore stain andobserve that the endospores formed in your specimen exhibit aspherical and subterminal morphology. Why is it useful knowthis?
