GMU:BioArt WS16/Freya Probst

Basic growth medium for bacteria

1. Goal:

Can people without access to a professional laboratory grow microorganisms with ingredients that are available to everyone and cheaper than the extra-sterile components?

2. Procedure:

The petri dishes are cleaned with a solution of 70% Alcohol + 30% of water (or destilled with a pressure cooker)

   200   ml destilled water/ tapwater
   3 ts  sugar
   2 ts  Bullion/ peptone (proteins)
   2 g   Agar(-Agar) (gellant)

We mixed different mediums, varying the ingredients: Mine contained distilled water, but instead of peptone I used bullion.

3. Outcome:

Only the soil sample showed some result. Besides that we can only observe oil drops from the Boullion.