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What is a petri dish

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A Petri dish is a shallow transparent lidded dish that biologists use to hold growth medium in which cells can be cultured, originally, cells of bacteria, fungi and small mosses.

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Step-by-step explanation:

petri dish is a small shallow dish of thin glass or plastic with a loose cover used especially for cultures in bacteriology.

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