View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Under ideal conditions, bacterial cell proliferation is exponential, transforming an empty Petri dish into a lush “lawn” of growth. However, as a ...

Bacteria are spread on an agar plate to make a 'bacterial lawn'. Paper discs soaked in antibiotic are placed on the agar and then incubated. After several days there are clear areas around the ...

Reason - this allows the bacteria to spread out and to grow in individual colonies on the agar plate. A lawn of bacteria can be produced by using a sterile spreader to evenly spread the bacteria ...