May 15 Day 2

Environmental samples results
Fountain:

Maura's Tongue:

Both the tongue and fountain samples grew

Today we received our unknown bacteria!
Dr. Pathakamuri told us that inoculated tubes and plates of this bacteria grow in the 30'C incubator.

 We prepared bacteria cultures in a broth tube, an Agar slant, and an agar plate. We first used the asceptic technique for inoculating each.
Broth tube:
We used the asceptic technique for sterilization, then took a loop to the unknown and and inserted it into the fresh broth to grow overnight.

Agar Slant: We used the asceptic technique again for sterilization and took a look of bacteria from our given unknown and slid th loop along the top of the slant to grow overnight.





Lastly, Dr. P added bacteriophages to a. agar plate with bacteria that has already grown in colonies. He incubated it. We will check the results tomorrow to see if the bacteriophages do kill bacteria.