a sterile serological pipette to pipette culture fluid into a sterile Petri dish and then a sterile bent glass rod to spread the

inoculant the surface.

a sterile cotton swab to inoculate culture fluid onto the surface of an agar plate.

a sterile serological pipette to inoculate culture fluid onto the surface of an agar plate and then a sterile bent glass rod to spread the inoculant over the agar surface.

a sterile serological pipette to pipette culture fluid into a sterile Petri dish which is then mixed with molten agar.

a sterile cotton swab to inoculate culture fluid into a sterile Petri dish.