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A gelatinous material obtained from red algae, especially Gracilaria species, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.
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A culture medium based on this material.
Examples of agar in a Sentence
We have tried it and it seems as reliable as using plain sugar agar.
Minor rivers are the Sakri, Hamp, Tesua, Agar, Maniari, Arpa, Kharod, Lilagar, Jonk and Bareri.
Alternatively, sterile clear pots can be bought, and sterile agar can be poured into them.
Be careful not to let the wire loop dig into the soft agar.
D. Use the sterilized forceps to transfer, gently, one of each type of disk provided on to the agar surface.
This picture shows me using the autoclave to destroy the cultures which had grown on the agar plates during incubation.
Usually yeasts are grown on yeast glucose agar, other fungi on malt agar and bacteria on nutrient agar.
They are divided into the following three groups on the basis of their colony morphology on blood agar plates.
The method used was to make spore suspensions and lawns of the fungus on agar plates.
Students have successfully grown cress seedlings in glass tubes of agar containing the metal ions.
Add 0.8 g agar and 0.5 g sucrose to batch two.
Technicians ' information Assuming 15 working groups Preparation consists of preparing sufficient nutrient agar plates and sterile swabs.
When strep is suspected, the throat material is cultured on blood agar that has been prepared as a broth and poured into petri dishes (plates) where it solidifies into a gel.
Blood agar is usually made from the cell walls of red algae (also trypticase soy, heart infusion, or Todd-Hewitt agar) and sheep's blood.
When the throat swab reaches the laboratory, the microbiologist uses it to make streaks directly across a blood agar plate.
The bacterium can be grown on chocolate agar or identified by blood cultures or Gram stain of body fluids.
There is a leather factory at Morar; cotton-presses at Morena, Baghana and Ujjain; ginning factories at Agar, Nalkhera, Shajapur and Sonkach; and a cotton-mill at Ujjain.
The new fluid, or water agar process, contained no carbolic acid, other methods being relied upon to ensure its purity.
Gold is found in the central part; and sugar, coco-nuts, betel-nuts, birds' nests, and agar agar, or sea vegetable, are among the other products of the island.
To mention examples, blood serum solidified at a suitable temperature is a highly suitable medium, and various media are made with extract of meat as a basis, with the addition of gelatine or agar as solidifying agents and of non-coagulable proteids (commercial " pep tone ") to make up for proteids lost by coagulation in the preparation.
In this method the bacteria are distributed in a gelatine or agar medium liquefied by heat, and the medium is then poured out on sterile glass plates or in shallow glass dishes, and allowed to solidify.
In these classes most of the bacteria you see will be grown either on nutrient agar or on blood agar.
When fixed amounts of this dilution series are mixed with an appropriate agar and incubated, then different numbers of colonies will be obtained.
I took my samples using 90mm Petri plates containing potato dextrose agar, the traditional medium for growing mold.
Can be grown on malt agar or agar with oatmeal.
Requires cornmeal agar or prune yeast lactose agar to promote sporulation in older cultures.
Grows on malt, yeast malt and glucose nutrient agar but laboratory cultures may not be needed.
Technicians ' Information Assuming 15 working groups Per working group First lesson 3 malt extract agar ' lawn ' cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.