Immunity Monday

Hey everyone sorry for posting way to late, but here is your recap of our Monday class.

We finished our two labs about bacteria that we had started on Friday with Mr. Peck. For the first lab we had swabbed different areas around the class room and some groups even went around the school. Each group swabbed an area and tested for bacteria by putting three different area swabs in a petrie dish and leaving on section blank as a control, but we had to wait over the weekend to find out the results.
For my group, we tested the floor of the classroom, the top of teh germ-x container, and a sink handle. WE found there to be the most bacteria on the sink handle which is quite surprising because the floor is very dirt and was our hypothesis for having the most bacteria.

The other lab we finished on Monday was about antibiotics. We put peppercorn broth on a petrie dish and put on that same petrie dish three different antibiotic discs and then another blank disc as a control. After waiting we got to see the results today.
For my group, we found the neomycin was strongest against the bacteria, having a bigger diameter of non-bacteria around it then the other antibiotics.
Today we also had our Disease of the day.

Today our disease of the day was Malaria.

Malaria
-The agent of disease is protist
-transmitted by mosquito bites
-attacks the human liver
-prevented by bug repellents and reduction of standing water

Homework...
- finish UP 13-18
-read section 35.2 and 1st page of 35.3 about immune systems and use the note taking skill tree maps
-- Due Wednesday