All About Petri Dish & Uses

Petri dish is one of the most important laboratoryteach students about the seed germination. The
consumable products used in biological laboratories.transparent material of the petri dish helps students
Petri dish is made of either glass or transparentto observe every step of growth of seed.
plastic. It is a shallow cylindrical dish mainly used to- The size of petri dish is perfect to be placed under
culture cells.a microscope so it is also used for dissection.
It was named after a German bacteriologist Julius- In laboratories, petri dishes can be used for basic
Petri, who invented it during working as an assistantexperimental purposes such as transferring liquids in
to Robert Koch. Petri dishes made of glass can besterile containers for study.
used again and again by sterilization while the plasticSeveral other uses of petri dishes, as laboratory
petri dishes once used can't be used again. Theyconsumable products, are being explored by scientists
must be disposed of after one use.around the world. In coming time its use is not going
Petri dishes are usullay filled with a growth mediumto be on hold or detoriate. Petri dishes have been
made of agar. Agar is a gelatinous substance made helpful in exploring different aspects of science, such
with extracts from red algae and various nutrients.as understanding viruses, growing cells integrated
The nutrients added might vary according to thewith electronic circuits, etc. It is quite possible that in
need of the organism being cultured.near future other methods of studying organisms in
Uses of Petri Disheslab be developed but the basic need to culture
- The primary use of petri dish in a laboratory is toorganism in a sterile environment will never end and
culture cells.so the use of petri dishes.
- Petri dishes are used in schools and colleges to