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What does agar mean?

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  1. A gelatinous material obtained from the marine algae, used as a bacterial culture medium, in electrophoresis and as a food additive.
  2. A culture medium based on this material.
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You can find agar flakes, a seaweed-derived thickener, in natural food stores.
These are made by applying to the face a soft material such as wax, plaster, or, in modern times, agar, a vegetable gelatine.
To test this we cloned 12 colonies from cells that had been passaged on agar plates for 8 days.
A fluorescence image of 12 tobacco plantlets growing on agar within a covered Perspex Petri dish.
To study these bacteria he grew them in glass Petri dishes on a substance called agar, in his laboratory.
Starved border cells plated on to nutrient agar demonstrated no sign of contamination after 48 h incubation.

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