The standard way to streak a plate involves creating a resevoir of the sample you are studying, then using a sterile tool to streak through that at a steep angle. Then you streak through the first streak with another sterile tool, and so on and so forth.
As you streak through lines, the amount of bacteria pulled along is reduced until you are able to isolate individual colonies.












If you drink something that is about the same ionic concentration as your blood, you can absorb a lot of it safely.
If you drink something much much saltier than your blood it will pull water out of your blood cells.
If you drink something with very few ions it will hydrate your blood cells, but drinking too much can burst your blood cells as they try to absorb to much.