Culturing the critters on an 8-year-old's hand

[Rockmetteller]

Wow, imagine what an Agar Large would look like…

[codinghorror]

@SpunkyTWS

My mother never let me play in an agar medium, but she did show me that if you put a piece of bread in a jar with a little water and stick it under the sink it’ll grow mold. I thought this was so cool I had at least three jars of different stuff under the sink at any time. My mother told everyone I was going to be the next Jonas Salk.

Whyyyyy would you teach a kid that? I already live in fear of finding some disgusting abandoned kid food in our house daily. Plus, ants.

Archer - Is That What You Want!

[TrollsOpinion]

Question: Is it correct to assume that the individual nodes that apparently prospered in the agar were the product of a single organism?

[PrestonSturges]

We could infer that each colony has grown from a single bacterium, although we could not rule out that two colonies started side by side and merged as they grew.