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Microbial Control: How to Kill Bacteria
Laboratory Exercise
Virtual Microbiology Classroom of Science Prof Online
Lab #5: Microbial Control Lab Materials
This is the main page for the Microbial Control Laboratory Topic of an 8-week introductory college microbiology class. This lab exposes students to various methods (heat, UV radiation, antibiotics and chemicals) used to kill bacteria and other microbes.
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ADDITIONAL REQUIRED READINGS
- How Do Antibiotics Work to Kill Bacteria? Guide to Mode of Action (MOA) of Major Classes of Antibiotics
- Microbiology In the Home: Tips to Sanitize Your House and Keep Your Family Healthy
MICROBIAL CONTROL HELPFUL LINKS
These are links to useful articles, animations and videos to help students better understand the laboratory exercise.
- Control of Microbial Growth, Todar’s Online Textbook of Bacteriology.
- Aseptic Technique and the Transfer of Microorganisms, Virtual Amrita Laboratories
- Play Pandemic 2 a video game of strategy, where you try to become a successful pandemic microbe and infect the world. My teenage, crazy-smart daughter recommends this one to you.
- Play Disease Defenders educational video game, Rice University.
- Pasteur’s Experiment in which he used heat to control microbes animation and quiz from WH Freeman.
MICROBIAL CONTROL LAB POWERPOINT
The Lab PowerPoints are used to introduce the material in the related Lab Exercise Instructions & Report Assignment.
- Lab #5: Microbial Control Microbiology Lab PPT Show
- Lab #5: Microbial Control Microbiology Lab PowerPoint PDF Printout
Printing: The best way for students to print out the PowerPoint Show is to download the PDF version. Select Print, and, when the Print screen comes up, go to the Print Handling options. Under Page Scaling, select "Multiple pages per sheet", Under Pages per sheet, select "2". That uses up less paper, placing two slides on each page.
The Microbial Control Lab materials of the Virtual Microbiology Classroom include:
- Lab Exercise Instructions
- Lab Report Assigment
- Laboratory PowerPoint
- Links to images related to the lab
NOTE: Students must review all material in categories highlighted with red titles PRIOR TO ATTENDING LAB in order to be prepared to participate.
MICROBIAL CONTROL LAB DOCS
The Lab Exercise Instructions provide a thorough explanation of the lab topic, as well as detailed directions on how to complete the lab exercise. The Lab Assignment is the report that students complete and turn in. Students will be completing the IN-LAB EXPERIMENTS unless told otherwise.
IN LAB EXPERIMENTS:
- Lab #5: Microbial Control Lab Exercise INSTRUCTIONS
- Lab #5: Microbial Control Lab Report ASSIGNMENT
AT HOME EXPERIMENT:
- Lab #5: Microbial Control Lab Exercise Instructions (Home Edition)
- Lab #5: Microbial Control Lab Scientific Paper Template
- Lab #5: Microbial Control: Planning Your Experimental Design
- Lab #5: Microbial Control In-lab Analysis of Experiment Results
- For specific instructions on how to write a well-organized, complete lab report, see How to Write a Paper in Scientific Journal Style and Format, from Bates College
- For instructions on how to cite references, see Siting References in Scientific Research Papers.
SCIENCE VIDEOS
You have free access to a large collection of materials used in a college-level introductory microbiology course. The Virtual Microbiology Classroom provides a wide range of free educational resources including PowerPoint Lectures, Study Guides, Review Questions and Practice Test Questions.
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HOME MICROBIOLOGY EXPERIMENT FROM SPO
TSY agar with sample from dirty dishes on top (note bacterial colonies that grew), and sample from cleaned dishes on bottom.
Page last updated: 2/2016
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