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book Microbiology Experiments: A Health Science Perspective 8th Edition by John Kleyn, Samuel Certo, Anna Oller cover

Microbiology Experiments: A Health Science Perspective 8th Edition by John Kleyn, Samuel Certo, Anna Oller

النسخة 8الرقم المعياري الدولي: 978-0077726676
book Microbiology Experiments: A Health Science Perspective 8th Edition by John Kleyn, Samuel Certo, Anna Oller cover

Microbiology Experiments: A Health Science Perspective 8th Edition by John Kleyn, Samuel Certo, Anna Oller

النسخة 8الرقم المعياري الدولي: 978-0077726676
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Why do you invert agar plates when placing them in the incubator?
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Agar plates are inverted when placing them in an incubator. Otherwise, the droplets formed on the lid dropdown into the agar and allow the microbes to swim. This results in the formation of clumsy colonies.
Thus, to avoid the mixing of microbial colonies, the agar plates are inverted.
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Microbiology Experiments: A Health Science Perspective 8th Edition by John Kleyn, Samuel Certo, Anna Oller
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