Sunday, October 18, 2009

Oh, the microbial world...

I am taking a class by the great microbiologist, Norm Pace, this semester. Turns out we literally cannot escape all the microbial life around us, regardless of the amount of hand washing we do, and that 10^4 cells/mL of microbes in drinking water is really doing very good as far as sanitation goes. Also, oxygen is actually fairly toxic to life, but this guy, who grew on a plate in the refrigerator, seems to be doing fine with it:



A pretty shiny orange button! That's kanamycin resistant...

I was told that if you get orange stuff, its salmonella. Of course, having Salmonella infect random things in your lab is slightly scary, seeing as how one of our people got sick with Salmonella within the past year. Whoops.

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