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Bacteria on agar plate

Scientist looking through an agar plate with bacteria growing.

Georgia Institute of Technology graduate student Natasha DeLeon-Rodriguez shows an agar plate on which bacteria taken from tropospheric air samples are growing.

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Rights: Gary Meek, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Published: 2 April 2013Size: 1.1 MB
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