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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. An agar plate is a Petri dish that contains a growth medium (typically agar plus nutrients) used to culture microorganisms or small plants like the moss Physcomitrella patens. Selective growth compounds may also be added to the media, such as antibiotics.hus, the plate can be used either to estimate the concentration of organisms in a liquid culture or a suitable dilution of that culture using a colony counter, or to generate genetically pure cultures from a mixed culture of genetically different organisms, using a technique known as  streaking .
Blood Agar Plates (BAP) (Atlas p. 49). Blood agar is actually a couple of related media, all of which are rich formulations containing peptones, yeast extracts, liver or heart extracts (depending on the medium), and blood.The blood is usually sheep's red blood cells (RBC), though horses and other species may be used. If an unknown species of bacteria is to be tested, divide a BAP plate in thirds. 2  Inoculate one third with the unknown, one third with a negative control (such as E. coli), and one third with a positve control (such as Bacillus cereus).