petri dish
Plural
petri dishes
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a shallow, circular, transparent dish with a lid, commonly used in laboratories to culture and study microorganisms
- The scientist placed the bacterial sample in a Petri dish to observe its growth over several days.
- Fungi colonies began to appear in the Petri dish after just 24 hours of incubation.
- The Petri dish was sterilized before use to prevent contamination of the experiment.
- Petri dishes are essential tools in microbiology for isolating and identifying different strains of bacteria.
- The students carefully transferred the yeast cells into the Petri dish to study their reproductive behavior.