Soil Microbiology

Last week in lab, Hannah and I performed antibiotic sensitivity on our soil microbe in order to continue the journey of identifying our soil...

blood agar plates Last week in lab Sammy and I tested our mystery microbe's hemolytic abilities. We did this by using blood aga...

Last week in lab, Hannah and I did an experiment to determine if our soil microbe reduced nitrate or not.  Nitrogen is a basic element of li...

This past week in lab Sammy and I tested the motility of our microbe. Motility is the ability of a microbe to move on its own. By using a s...

Last week in lab, Hannah and I verified that our soil microbe did produce endospores.  First, it is important to understand what an endospor...

In our most recent lab meeting Sammy and I tested our mystery microbe for catalase activity. To accomplish this we first tested some contro...