Katie: What's a Blog Without A Video Here and There?

Hey Guys! I am so sorry for the late post but the videos have taken way longer to download onto my computer than I thought it would! But anyways the video does not have sound for some odd reason, so below each video is a brief description on what is happening. I will also put a brief description under the video so you know which tube and plate I am inoculating.




I had some questions from Samantha V. in OCE1001. She asked if the bacteria from the sharks mouths differentiate between different breeds of sharks and the answer to that is yes and no. Just like humans, sharks are all different. So no matter the breed or the age of the shark, all their mouths are different. Just how one snowflake cannot be the same neither can bacteria in different sharks mouths. Yes the may have some of the same bacteria but all the samples I have taken do not look the same. Some pictures are provided around!

Samantha also asked if the bite is more dangerous the bigger the shark is. To be completely honest I haven't been focusing on what the bites do to the person, but I've been focusing more on what bacteria is living in their mouths and identifying it.

Here we are inoculating the plates with Specimen 10. I used a loop which is basically a wire with a loop at the end of it. I stated with the TSA plate just so we can do the oxidase test and catalase test on. Next I clean the loop with a flame and let it cool down. The starch plate I did next and all I do is run a line down the middle of the plate so I can add iodine to it after a couple days. After that we do the Blood Agar Plate which will see if the bacteria needs nutrients to grow. Next will be the EMB plate which I streaked along the plate. Lastly I did the MAC plate which I just ran the loop across it.


This week I post the results for all the tests for you all to see!