If you have a bacterial contamination on your plate you should not flood it before decontamination or autoclave it could be a chance it spreads more in the work and could be a danger to the environment. For the environment and bio safety concerns you should not flood your contaminated plate. It's question 11 and 12 on the SP18 Sea Phages Lab Questions The question is as follows Will the phage continue to reproduce after the MTL is collected? Why or why not?