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Petri dish a shallow circular flat-bottomed dish, often with a fitting cover, used in laboratories, esp for producing cultures of microorganisms petri dish [′pē·trē ‚dish] (microbiology) A shallow glass or plastic dish with a loosely fitting overlapping cover used for bacterial plate cultures and plant and animal tissue cultures. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| We've got thousands of little (soil) petri dishes with known carbon values. They then place these samples in a nutrient-rich medium in petri dishes and identify artifact-wrecking microbes from those species of bacteria and fungi that grow into colonies in the dish. But human embryonic stem cells can only come from very early embryos grown in cultured petri dishes at in-vitro fertilization clinics. |
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