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Physarum is a slime mold that is often used as a model for testing in the lab as it is well researched and known. See below another documentation of the whole process. | Physarum is a slime mold that is often used as a model for testing in the lab as it is well researched and known. See below another documentation of the whole process. | ||
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This is my first try with this organism. I want to get in touch with it and feel more comfortable working with it. So I need to know how it behaves and interacts with its enironment. After the first run I will have another one with more specific adjustments, such as taxis based on different environment factors (i. g. chemicals, sound, movement, nutriens). But first I used the most basic setting. | This is my first try with this organism. I want to get in touch with it and feel more comfortable working with it. So I need to know how it behaves and interacts with its enironment. After the first run I will have another one with more specific adjustments, such as taxis based on different environment factors (i. g. chemicals, sound, movement, nutriens). But first I used the most basic setting: | ||
*100 ml tab water | |||
*2g Agar | |||
*mix Agar with water and microwave it till it starts to boil | |||
*fill the petri dishes and let it cool down till its gel | |||
*extract parts from another culture of physarum and attach it to the medium | |||
Thats what I did. I prepared two petri dishes. One with a plasmodial from and the other one with sclerotial form. The use the sclerotium I added some water to "wake" it up from its dormant state. I too it home and took a few pictures: |
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