Below you will find instructor notes and answers to selected questions for each lab activity:
Aseptic Technique
Use of the Microscope
Seeing Microorganisms: Learning about Size, Shape, and Arrangement
Growth of Biofilms
Motility: Dynamics of Growth in the Microbial World
Enumeration of Bacteria
An Introduction to the Viruses
Balloon Magic….or is it Yeast Fermentation?
The Winogradsky Column
Controlling Microbial Growth
Effects of Handwashing
Interrupting the Transmission of Microorganisms
Epidemiology
Introduction to Immunology: Blood
DNA Isolation
Ribotyping
Microbial Genetics with Serratia marcescens