Usually, in culturing of the bacteria we have a slant and then portion f it is transferred to the agar plate. The growth characteristics are more useful in the agar plates because it is where we really do the observation because bacteria in slants are still to be transferred in the agar plates.
There are the few reasons for growth characterization are more useful on agar plates than on agar slant are discussed below.
Explanation:
Generally, agar plates are very larger and streaking out the bacteria can be possible in it. By doing this, you can find the analyzation of individual colonies of their morphology with the other uses.
Agar slants are usually used for the short time period of stock cultures of bacteria.
Agar slants can be usually used to find the motility of bacteria by doing a single steak inoculation up the center of slant.
Agar plates are used used in stock cultures growing that can be refrigerated after the incubation and for several weeks it can be maintained.
