agar plate
noun
plural agar plates
: a usually sterile petri dish filled with a prepared solid growth medium of agar mixed with nutrients
The vector will replicate within the bacteria that are then spread onto the surface of an agar plate.—
John Goldman
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Its discovery was considered accidental; Fleming noticed that fungus growing on an agar plate appeared to be inhibiting the growth of bacteria.
—Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 16 Nov. 2023
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agar plate
noun
: a usually sterile petri dish filled with a prepared solid growth medium of agar mixed with nutrients
The results of this study suggest that immediate inoculation of a swab on an agar plate is necessary to obtain the optimum number of viable colonies.—L. Price et al., British Journal of Biomedical Science
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