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Today we went out into the wonderful world of microbes and collected specimen for a germ inquiry. We collected two samples. The first was from the bottom of Ari's shoe (which has been EVERYWHERE!!! farm, airport, beach ... you name it!), and for the other sample a knight in shining armor went into the boys bathroom for us and swabbed the stall handle.
Once we had retrieved the samples, we wiped them on the agar solution on different petri dishes; put them in the room temperature incubator to await, with excited anticipation, the resulting growth.
08/29/13
Upon arrival in the lab, after washing our hands of course, we retrieved our petri dishes and saw immense growth! EWWWW!
Bottom of shoe Boy's Bathroom Handle
(Good job Boys! Now we want to see the girls, do a little comparison! Eh?)
We expected that the specimen collected from the boy's restroom would be the worst of the two, but were surprised to discover just the opposite. Perhaps the restroom had just been cleaned? We definitely were reminded of the fact that bacteria are ubiquitous (everywhere)!
What interesting (and/or disgusting) things shall we see next????
~ JTA, ART
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