1. Bellwork: Mon. April 23, 2018
1. The 3 basic bacterial shapes are: round (coccus)rod (baccillus) and spiral (spirillum)
The 3 basic arrangement prefixes are (and what they mean)
___________________ =__________________

2. Bacteria can be Found Everywhere

4. Objectives: to take bacterial swabs from places around Ironwood Ridge.
to inoculate (swab) Petri dish with bacterial culture and monitor growth
to count bacterial colonies
to find out where bacteria are the most numerous
to determine what kind of environmental conditions influence bacterial growth

5. Materials: 1 Petri dish with agar per group (of 4) cotton Q-tips
Masking Tape (parafilm)
 Grease pencil (sharpie)
 Incubator

6. Procedure:
1. Write your groups’ initials and period along the outside edge of the Petri dish (DO NOT OPEN IT YET!)
2. I’ll divide the divide the dish into 4 equal parts with a sharpie & number 1-4. Do not label the lids of dishes because they can easily fall off and be mixed up.

10. Bottom of the Petri dish!!!!

11. Don’t touch these with your fingertips,
you will contaminate your sample

13. CONTROL!!!
No swab… NO Sample!!!

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Hypothesis:
Where do you think you will find the highest amount of bacteria?
What do you think the Petri dish will look like in 2-3 days?
STOP

25. Bellwork: Tues. March 31, 2015
Small 1 celled organisms in pond water belong to kingdom _________________.
These organisms can be: a.__________-like b.__________-like orc.__________-like
3. Protists can be good because:
4. Protists can be bad because:

29. Bellwork: Monday: April 14, 2014 Draw an example of a basidiomycete
Hint: look in Fri.’s notes
Draw an example of a bacillus
coccus
spirillum

30. Bellwork: Tues. April 15, 2014
Hints for Crossword: Decomposer cocci consumers lactic acid prokayote bioremediation