What are the uses of a wire loop(lab apparatus)?

Question

What are the uses of a wire loop(lab apparatus)?

Answer 1

These loops are used to transfer small amounts of a bacterial culture into broth, to another agar plate for continued growth ..or do a "streak " on the plate to get individual colonies of bacteria that can then be sub-cultured to isolate the different bacteria  that may be in a mixed culture .

Answer 2

Wire loops are normally used to transfer bacterial or other microbial cultures from one culture plate to another.