You will only isolate pure colony to inoculate again (sub-culturing) to newly prepared plate medium, slant agar tube, and broth tube for further study and identification Question from the picture above (pure colonies white pinhead size)    How many pure colonies of microorganisms are in the petri dish sample?

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