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Bacterial lawn

(Redirected from Bacterial mat)

Bacterial lawn is a used by biologists to describe the appearance of bacterial colonies when all the individual colonies on a petri-dish merge together to form a mat of bacteria. More complex and diverse aggregations of bacteria are usually referred to as biofilms.

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