In this activity, students will be introduced to the skills and techniques that microbiologists use on a daily basis. Students will practice these techniques by performing a streak isolation with the provided bacterial cultures, as well as samples they collect from their classroom, to learn about different types of media and how bacterium reproduce.

Kit Includes:

2 x 200mL Prepared tryptic soy agar
10 Lyophilized cultures of Serratia marcescens
20 Sterile petri dishes
10 Tryptic soy broth tubes
10 Inoculation loops
10 Sterile pipettors
10 Sterile cotton swabs, pk/2