Question

What is serial dilution?How can they be used in biology?Are they considered as buffers?

Answer 1

A serial dilution is the stepwise dilution of a substance in solution

Answer 2

M, 0.1 M, 0.01 M, 0.001 M... Serial dilutions are used to accurately create highly diluted solutions as well as solutions for experiments resulting in concentration curves with a logarithmic scale.

Answer 3

How can we prepare?

Answer 4

i dont know how they are related to buffer solution

Answer 5

Thanks anyway

Answer 6

basically it is the process of creating a sequence of dilutions which are all weaker than the ones before.start of with 100% conc glucose. put 1ml of it in 9ml of water so you have 1ml in 10mls (a 1 in 10 dilution- you have made it ten percent of the original dilution)
Example:
if you then take 1ml of your 1 in 10 and put it in 9mls of water, it is diluted down to 10 percent again. (a 1 in 100 dilution cos its 10 percent of a 10 percent dilution. 10% of 10% is 1%. you now have solutions of a 100%, 10% and 1% concentration.
Hope this makes sense.
So...
Serial dilutions is just a way of making a certain amount of a desires solution concentration. Serial dilutions would be used really whenever you want to make a solution. This isn't always a buffer but id assume you can make a buffer through this

Answer 7

Thanks a lot,but do you know how to make a buffer with serial dilution?

Answer 8

im sorry but I don't :/

Answer 9

thanks anyway ;)

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