LB Agar plate, Plain, LB agar plate, also known as Luria Bertani medium with agar, is used to grow Escherichia coli and other bacterial cultures, Pack of 1

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A subtype of nutrient agar, this is the general medium for microbiology studies and may be used for routine cultivation of not particularly fastidious microorganisms. Also, does not preferentially grow one kind of bacteria over another. General • LB agar plate is a nutrient-rich media frequently used to culture bacteria in the lab, including Escherichia coliApplication• LB agar plate is used to culture bacteria in microbiology research. These plates are commonly used during cloning experiments to amplify antibiotic-resistant, competent bacteria• The addition of agar to LB medium helps form a gel that allows bacteria to grow. The bacteria cannot digest the agar but can obtain the needed nutrients to grow from the LB medium• The addition of ampicillin (100 μg/mL) to these plates allows selection of the bacteria that can grow in the presence of ampicillin which is conferred by a plasmid carrying the antibiotic resistance gene