1 Wisconsin Heat Awareness Day will be observed on Thursday, 13 June 2013. 2  Wisconsin, along with the rest of the nation, observes Lightning Awareness Week from 23 to 29 June 2013. 3  Since Wisconsin borders on two of the Great Lakes, rip currents can pose a hazard to swimmers.
Growth of obligate anaerobes. The mixture of necessary nutrients can be used as a liquid medium, or a solidifying agent can be added. Agar agar is a natural polysaccharide produced by marine algae and is the most commonly used solidifying agent added to media (end concentration usually 1.5 % w/v). If hydrolysis of the agar is suspected, a silica gel is used as a replacement solidifying agent.
An agar plate is a sterile Petri dish that contains agar plus nutrients, and is used to culture bacteria or fungi.ypes of agar plates [edit]. 1  Blood agar-contains blood cells from an animal (e.g. a sheep). 2  Most bacteria will grow on this medium. 3  Chocolate agar-this contains lysed blood cells, and is used for growing fastidious (fussy) respiratory bacteria. 4  Neomycin agar-contains the antibiotic neomycin.