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Bacterial Lab Report- Elevator
Bacteria is a living organism found almost everywhere. There are three different shapes of bacteria; Bacillus, Coccus, and Spirillum. They are so tiny, and it makes it difficult for scientists to identify them. Scientists have to use special equipment to be able to see how bacteria looks and where can they be found. There are more than 50 thousand species of bacteria but only less than 8,000 of them have been found. Bacteria divides by binary fission, which means that the bacteria within its structures are doubled and then they are divided in half. Bacteria does not have a nucleus or membrane bound organelles. They do have DNA, but it does not look the same as in Eukaryotes. They also have a cell wall and they …show more content…

We had to think of a place where bacteria can mostly be found so we picked the elevator because we thought that they would not clean it daily. The other groups picked a restroom handle, a vending machine, a computer lab and the building entrance door,
Second, we had to get a swab and wet it with a little amount of water and cover it. Then, we head over to the elevator and we started to rub the swab against all the buttons of the elevator and cover the swab with its wrapper. We gathered the bacteria and we went back to class.
Third, we grabbed a petri dish and the agar plate, and we started to rub the swab against the agar plate in different directions. We rubbed it diagonal starting from the bottom and then going upwards, horizontal, diagonal starting from the top and going downwards, and then horizontal again. We basically rubbed the swab all around the agar plate turning the swab around every time we change direction.
Fourth, we taped all around the agar plate to prevent bacteria from the air going into the agar plate. We wrote down our names to be able to distinguish the agar plate from the others. And then we placed the agar plate in the incubator for a

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