Effect of Serum on Cell Growth

Serum is always required as a supplement in the cell culture media.

• True

• False

Medium supplemented with 1% serum is an optimal condition for maintenance of most cell lines.

• True

• False

Serum inactivation can elimination infectious agents and growth inhibitory substances.

• True

• False

Regardless of initial cell concentration seeded, anchorage-dependent cells will grow well in the media supplemented with optimal serum concentration.

• True

• False

Serum provides additional amino acids.

• True

• False

Serum helps the cell-substratum attachment for anchorage-independent cells.

• True

• False

Serum contains protease-inhibitors.

• True

• False

Protein compositions in all batches of serum are standardized.

• True

• False

Serum-free media are available to all cell types.

• True

• False

For downstream processing such as purification of biological product obtained from cell culture, serum-free media is a better option compared with regular complete media.

• True

• False