Bacterial Growth Lab Report
Introduction:
Bacteria need specific living conditions to survive. The ideal conditions for bacterial growth is a warm, dark, and damp environment. This provides the maximum effectiveness for bacterial growth. The areas in our school that contain the most bacteria would be the water fountains because the bacteria from our mouths drop off on to it when we drink from it, and because water fountains are not regularly washed in comparison to weight equipment. Water fountains also provide a warm damp place for the bacteria to live and reproduce. Bacteria use cellular respiration to get energy for reproduction, and other activities. The chemical formula for cellular respiration is C₆H₁₂O₆ + O₂ → CO₂ + H₂O + ATP (or energy). For cellular respiration …show more content…
The amounts of bacteria on my experimental side were far less than the amount of bacteria on my constant side. In my case, quantitative data can be used to support it even further as it proves that the amount of bacteria on my unaltered, control side of the petri dish was much more than the changed, experimental side of the petri dish. You could also argue that qualitative data could help support it because you can visually see the difference that the Hand Sanitizer made in killing the bacteria. Unfortunately, since I did not do the experiment myself, I cannot make any comment on any possible errors in my experiment. Although if I had to guess, I would guess that for most experiments, the most common error would be failing to keep the constants the same. For example, collecting the bacteria at different times. All pie charts for all students should all be similar because the data was collected and brought together so every group had access to every other group’s data. This means that there should be a consistency within other scientists works. According to our class’s table, the areas that contained the most bacteria would be located on an individual’s hand. This is probably in part because throughout our day, we touch a lot of objects consistently which can rid our hands full of bacteria. The cleaner that seemed to prove most effective seems to be the Hand Sanitizer. This is most likely because Hand Sanitizer was the most used cleaner within all of the
Bacteria need specific living conditions to survive. The ideal conditions for bacterial growth is a warm, dark, and damp environment. This provides the maximum effectiveness for bacterial growth. The areas in our school that contain the most bacteria would be the water fountains because the bacteria from our mouths drop off on to it when we drink from it, and because water fountains are not regularly washed in comparison to weight equipment. Water fountains also provide a warm damp place for the bacteria to live and reproduce. Bacteria use cellular respiration to get energy for reproduction, and other activities. The chemical formula for cellular respiration is C₆H₁₂O₆ + O₂ → CO₂ + H₂O + ATP (or energy). For cellular respiration …show more content…
The amounts of bacteria on my experimental side were far less than the amount of bacteria on my constant side. In my case, quantitative data can be used to support it even further as it proves that the amount of bacteria on my unaltered, control side of the petri dish was much more than the changed, experimental side of the petri dish. You could also argue that qualitative data could help support it because you can visually see the difference that the Hand Sanitizer made in killing the bacteria. Unfortunately, since I did not do the experiment myself, I cannot make any comment on any possible errors in my experiment. Although if I had to guess, I would guess that for most experiments, the most common error would be failing to keep the constants the same. For example, collecting the bacteria at different times. All pie charts for all students should all be similar because the data was collected and brought together so every group had access to every other group’s data. This means that there should be a consistency within other scientists works. According to our class’s table, the areas that contained the most bacteria would be located on an individual’s hand. This is probably in part because throughout our day, we touch a lot of objects consistently which can rid our hands full of bacteria. The cleaner that seemed to prove most effective seems to be the Hand Sanitizer. This is most likely because Hand Sanitizer was the most used cleaner within all of the