This microbiology kit has been designed as an introduction to the study of micro-organisms. The booklet has been written for the teacher who has little or no experience of handling micro-organisms and includes full instructions on safety, aseptic techniques, growing micro-organisms and their safe disposal. All of the experiments are set out step by step and cover a range of needs from 12-year-olds to sixth-form students.
The kit could be used by a single student working through all the experiments or by a group working in parallel. The reagents, cultures and media can be stored for several months, particularly if they are refrigerated. It is possible to keep cultures for longer periods, providing they are sub-cultured on to fresh medium at regular intervals.
Experiments included in the teaching notes are as follows:
Making broth cultures
Effects of temperature
Making plate cultures
Effect of antibiotics
Gram’s staining
Negative staining
Pasteurisation
Examining living bacteria
How fungi obtain food
Bacteria around us
Looking at fungi
Bacteria in soil
The life cycle of Mucor
Bacteria in milk
The kit contains:
Fungi Cultures: Aspergillus oryzae, Mucor+, Mucor-,
Bacterial Cultures: Penicillium chrysogenum, Bacillus stearothermophilus, Staphylococcus albus, Escherica coli,
10 x nutrient agar deeps
5 x nutrient broths
1 x starch agar
1 x malt extract agar
1 x china blue lactose agar
20 x petri dishes
1 x universal container
1 pair of gloves
50 pre-cleaned slides
100 x 18mm square coverslips
2 x sterile pipettes
5 x cavity slides
1 x inoculating loop
Chinagraph Pencil
3 x disposal bags
1 x alcohol bottle (empty)
1 x Grams Iodine
1 x Crystal Violet
1 x Neutral Red
1 x Aniline Blue
1 x nigrosine
1 x 10% Resazurin Tablets
10 x Streptomycin – 25 units
10 x Penicillin – 1.5 units
10 x Penicillin – 5 units
All parts of the kit can be replaced from our extensive range of cultures, media, reagents and equipment.
Please note: Alcohol has been omitted from the kit, although an empty bottle for it is provided. This enables the kit to be send freely by post and air.
