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agar Definition

agar (ä′gər, ā′-; --gär′)

noun

  1. a gelatinous product made from seaweed and used as a base for bacterial cultures, as a laxative, in jellied and preserved foods, in electrophoresis, etc.
  2. a base containing agar

Etymology: Malay

agar Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • contain: Title: Details: Rack of Bijoux Bottles Bijoux bottles can contain agar which enables the storage of bacterial cultures.
  • add: Add 0.8 g agar to batch one ( control ).
  • use: We have tried it and it seems as reliable as using plain sugar agar.

Adjective modifier

  • sterile: Alternatively, sterile clear pots can be bought, and sterile agar can be poured into them.
  • nutrient: In these classes most of the bacteria you see will be grown either on nutrient agar or on blood agar.
  • soft: Be careful not to let the wire loop dig into the soft agar.
  • carnation: Single spore cultures from these colonies were grown on carnation leaf agar, to assist identification ( Nelson et al.
  • appropriate: When fixed amounts of this dilution series are mixed with an appropriate agar and incubated, then different numbers of colonies will be obtained.

Modifies a noun

  • plate: Cultures should NOT be grown on special media ie agar plates.
  • gel: The supporting medium is usually agar gel or cellulose on acetate film or glass.
  • plug: The stems of trees were wound inoculated with mycelial agar plugs.
  • surface: Gently rub the swab onto one of the quarters of the agar surface.
  • medium: Suggest why sugar is added to the agar medium Your explants may be kept either in the light or in the dark.
  • culture: Our data show that TNF-alpha markedly inhibits the growth of these cells in both liquid and soft agar cultures.

Noun used with modifier

  • dextrose: I took my samples using 90mm Petri plates containing potato dextrose agar, the traditional medium for growing mold.
  • malt: Can be grown on malt agar or agar with oatmeal.
  • yeast: Requires cornmeal agar or prune yeast lactose agar to promote sporulation in older cultures.
  • potato: I took my samples using 90mm Petri plates containing potato dextrose agar, the traditional medium for growing mold.
  • glucose: Grows on malt, yeast malt and glucose nutrient agar but laboratory cultures may not be needed.
  • extract: Technicians ' Information Assuming 15 working groups Per working group First lesson 3 malt extract agar ' lawn ' cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.