The Truth About Petri Dishes 🧫

2024-06-13

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One of the best ways of studying bacteria is to grow them on a petri dish, but only a tiny percentage of bacterial species will grow on them. The other 98% of them simply refuse to.

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- Petri dish: a shallow, circular, transparent dish with a flat lid, used for the culture of microorganisms.

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