“What happened to Buggy?” I cried.
In the midst of our crowded apartment sat a tank of Central Park water on my night stand. My brother and I eagerly checked it every night with our magnifying glasses to discover something new: a leech, a mosquito larva, a snail, and so many more organisms.
One night, out of curiosity, I placed Buggy, a saltwater fish my dad had brought home after fishing, into the tank. The next morning, I found Buggy floating on his side with crowds of plankton feeding on his carcass. I lost a friend that day, but the loss also ignited an interest in microbes and their impact on the bigger ecosystem.
As I got older, I was introduced to microbes that directly affected human populations. In the National Youth Leadership
In the midst of our crowded apartment sat a tank of Central Park water on my night stand. My brother and I eagerly checked it every night with our magnifying glasses to discover something new: a leech, a mosquito larva, a snail, and so many more organisms.
One night, out of curiosity, I placed Buggy, a saltwater fish my dad had brought home after fishing, into the tank. The next morning, I found Buggy floating on his side with crowds of plankton feeding on his carcass. I lost a friend that day, but the loss also ignited an interest in microbes and their impact on the bigger ecosystem.
As I got older, I was introduced to microbes that directly affected human populations. In the National Youth Leadership