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Within a population, each individual mutation is extremely rare when it first occurs; often there is just one copy of it in the gene pool of an entire species. But huge numbers of mutations may occur every generation in the species as a whole.
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Petri (the person that invented the Petri dish) invented the transparent glass lidded dishes which were meant for keeping and growing bacteria and other stuff including fungi and mosses sterilized. It dated back to the late 1800s.