What An 8-Year Old’s Hand in a Patry Dish Looks Like
Imagine you have a petri dish full of agar. Then imagine an eight-year-old boy comes around and sticks his hand in it. What would happen? The photo below shows the exact result of what happened in this situation. If you didn’t know, agar is a gelatinous substance made from red algae.
Thanks to its texture, agar, also known as agar-agar, is often used as a thickener for foods! It’s also handy for culturing microbes because it provides the perfect environment for them to grow. So when an eight-year-old boy stuck his predictably germy hand into the agar after playing outside, this was the fascinating result.