What is the purpose of heat fixation in the preparation smear sample?
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What is the purpose of heat fixation in the preparation smear sample?
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Answer:
dry smear
Explanation:
it is heated on a hot plate or passed through a flame several times to heat fix it. Heat fixing denatures bacterial enzymes, preventing them from digesting cell parts, which causes the cell to break, a process called autolysis. The heat also enhances the adherence of bacterial cells to the slide.