Petri dish

swab the agar on the plate. However, to not only compare the food types and surfaces I decided to also compare the amount of bacteria from just being handled to the amount after being dropped. To do so, I pressed the food item on one side of the petri dish, dropped the item, picked it up, and pressed it against the other side of the plate. After finishing all six plates (plus two controls and a negative control), they were placed in an incubator at 90° Fahrenheit. Due to schedule…

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated,” spoken by Mahatma Gandhi. (Famous Animal Rights Quotes) Leading in various independent and civil rights movements, Gandhi was a strong promoter for nonviolence, fairness, and equal treatment across the world. Although animal rights were not a primary problem during his time period, the mentality Gandhi practices is applied to the controversial subject of animal rights by many advocates. Is Gandhi…

Was I that hyperactive when I was twelve years old? Give twenty girls soccer balls and ask them to run, and they explode out, bumping each other every which way, falling over, kicking their balls however many yards in random directions. “Is this what molecules look like when I heat them up?” I always think wryly to myself at the disaster scene before me. When they finally gather before me again, eyes waiting for my words, I can’t help but smile. The reason why? I love messes. It wasn’t always…

There are more than 100 million animals being poisoned, burned, crippled, and abused in many other ways in the U.S every year. All these animals being tested and injured are being tested with products with chemicals in them that are extremely dangerous. Animal testing now is increasing more and more every year which ends in more animals being abused or dying from these chemicals. Even though these researchers inflict so much harm to these animals there is no law that makes it illegal for them to…

local salons. I will get permission from the salons where I plan to obtain the samples and identify them only as anonymous sources. I will go to local business establishments and collect samples from the pedicure stations using materials such as petri dishes, sterilized swabs and other research materials. Microorganisms are living, single celled organisms. Statistically, there is a total of nearly 5 nonillion microorganisms in the world. These organisms are too small to be seen without…

1. In the fourth part of his book, Michael Pollan discusses fermentation. The first chapter is about the fermentation of vegetables. Fermentation is basically decay or rot. This used to be how people preserved food before cooling appliances and sealed cans were invented/available. About 33% of food is still produced by fermentation. Every culture ferments food one way or another. One example of culture specific fermentation that is still quite common is the pit fermentation of cabbage in China…

The Real Power of Wealth Jaden Smith, the son of rapper/actor Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett Smith, lives a life most people cannot imagine. To him, the world is his oyster, or, as he prefers, his petri dish. “Me and Willow [his younger sister] are scientists,” he told GQ, “so everything for us is a scientific test upon humanity. And luckily we're put in a position where we can affect large groups of human beings at one time.” He loves to post random and/or provocative things on Twitter…

Various number of people support animal experimentation. People believe that testing different animals will help solve all of the world's health problems. Numerous people see animals as test subjects and not as living beings. Animal experimentation is inhumane. There are alternate testing methods that can be used to help humans, animals organelles are different from humans organelles, animals are tested in a cruel way, as well as any vaccine that could help save an endangered species is…

Since the beginning of time women have struggled with infertility problems. The old theory of getting married and having a family are becoming harder to establish. A lot of women today are having a lot of issues, either from waiting too late to start a family or fertility problems. A woman’s ability to get pregnant start to decline in her mid-twenties and it gets more and more harder with time There are billions of women, even couples that are suffering from the ability to reproduce on their own…

A discourse community includes individuals who share common values and ideas, work to accomplish the same goals, and communicate using their own terminology. Biology is a natural science based on critical thinking and continuous research of new hypotheses, therefore effective communication is a key characteristic. The members of this discourse community are constantly sharing their ideas and new discoveries. As being part of this discourse community, communication with others using scientific…