Micro - Lab Practical 1

a microorganism accidentally gets into your culture

unicellular eukaryotic organisms; usually chemoheterotrophic.

an organism the belongs to the Kingdom of Fungi; a eukaryotic absorptive chemoheterotroph.

domain of prokaryotic organisms, characterized by peptidoglycan cell walls.

a submicroscopic, parasitic, filterable agent consisting of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat.

Fungi typically grow in media that is slightly acidic and has extra glucose

a general purpose media that will support the growth of many common bacteria (and some fungi) that aren't to finicky about what they eat

microbes that are temporary and can be removed by handwashing

species of microorganisms that live naturally and permanently on our skin; hand washing will not completely remove resident flora, it will decrease their numbers temporarily.

a disease acquired during hospitalization; a disease that a patient did not have before entering the hospital.

a logical prediction or educated guess as to the answer to your question

the condition being changed (example: increasing the temperature of the water)

the unchanged group that we compare against

refer to the actual data that you collect, like the numbers of colonies we obtained after washing our hands a certain way.

the logical judgment or analysis we make from our results.

a microscope with a single magnifying lens

a microscope with two magnifying lenses, objective and ocular.

a lens system whose function is to focus the light onto the specimen

the bottom of the microscope