A shallow, circular, transparent dish with a flat lid, used for the culture of microorganisms.
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- Approximately 30 seeds were placed on 25 ml of agar-solidified culture medium in Petri dishes.
- Serial dilutions of homogenized lungs were plated on Petri dishes containing trypticase soy agar.
- Twenty fresh anthers were selected from ten plants at random; ten were kept on dry blotting paper in Petri dishes and the other ten were kept in Petri dishes containing water-saturated blotting paper.
- For irradiation, cells were cultured in Petri dishes and synchronized by contact inhibition in confluent cultures.
- Five pieces of embryogenic tissue were cultured in Petri dishes containing 35 ml maturation medium.