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Why must you avoid breathing or coughing on an agar plate?

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An agar plate is simply a Petri dish and it contains agar as a solid growth medium. It also contains nutrients for the culturing of microorganisms. Because of this reason, we must avoid breathing and coughing on these agar plates to avoid contaminating them. If they get contaminated we won't only see microorganism growth that we want to see for the experiment or test but also all the organisms from our body.

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