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It is therefore important that any petri dish or agar used is sterilised before use, and that aseptic techniques are used to inoculate the plates. An inoculating loop can be used to transfer bacteria.

Petri dish A glass or plastic circular dish. Used in combination with agar to grow cells. Quadrat A square grid, often 1m squared. Used to sample plants or slow moving animals e.g. snails.

Sacrifice a sexually mature mouse, remove the testes and place them in a Petri dish containing PBS. Decapsulate the testis and transfer the seminiferous tubules to a new Petri dish containing PBS.