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Artificial Substrates

An example of an artificial substrate taken from a cave.
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If you place a glass or rock slide (like a microscope slide) in water or in soil, microbes find it a great surface on which to grow. When you retrieve the slide you can “see” the microbes that have grown using a microscope and special dyes.

The picture below is an example of a slide that was made by making artificial substrates.
An example of an artificial substrate taken from a cave.
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