Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2007, Volume 28
Abstract
In this exercise, students develop and test a hypothesis about microbial ecology. The hypothesis that students choose must be testable with the “EcoPlate,” a multiwell test plate that allows rapid determination of the metabolic diversity of a bacterial population without tedious and time-consuming reagent preparation by the instructor. After inoculation with a solution of bacteria washed from a soil or plant sample, the plate returns a unique set of positive (purple) and negative (clear) reactions that allows students to assess whether or not two samples contain similar or dissimilar bacterial populations.
Keywords: ecology, microbiology
Purdue University (2006)
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