Petri dish Petri dish A Petri dish (sometimes spelled "Petrie Dish" and alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish), named after the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, is a shallow cylindrical glass or plastic lidded dish that biologists use to culture cellssuch as bacteriaor small mosses. Modern Petri dishes usually feature rings and/or slots on their lids and bases so that when stacked, they are less prone to sliding off one another. Multiple dishes can also be incorporated into one plastic container to create a "multi-well plate". While glass Petri dishes may be reused after sterilization (via an autoclave at
Lucas with the Lid Off Lucas with the Lid Off "Lucas with the Lid Off" is a 1994 song by Danish rapper Lucas Secon that was released as the lead single from his album "Lucacentric". The single was a hit in the United States, reaching number 29 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and number 22 on the "Billboard" Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was most successful in Australia, where it reached number 15, and peaked within the top 40 in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The video for the song was directed by the French film maker Michel Gondry and was nominated for a