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EDVOTEK™ Agar Art: Creating Masterpieces with Microbes
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In this 'Agar Art' experiment, students create 'Bio-Paints' using bacterial culture techniques. The color-producing microbes are painted onto an agar plate canvas. After incubation will inspect, admire, and hopefully share your living art.

  • Create works of art using color-producing microbes
  • Explore the intersections of science and art and the field of BioArt
  • Understand the transformation technologies used to create bacterial BioPaints
  • Includes four brightly colored BioPaints and the material needed for 25 agar canvases
  • Group Size: For 25 Students
  • Time Required: 60 minutes (plus two incubations)
  • Kit Includes: Instructions, ampicillin, IPTG, GFP, Pink, Blue, and Purple BactoBeads™ ReadyPour™ Luria Broth agar, sterile, Luria Broth liquid media, inoculating loops, sterile, plastic loops, non-sterile, toothpicks, petri plates, 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tubes, and 10 mL pipet, sterile
  • All You Need: Distilled water, gloves, UV light source, microwave, incubator or water bath, adjustable pipette and tips (20-200μl), pipet pump (optional), vortexer (optional), and fine tip paint brushes (optional).
  • Storage: Some Components Require Refrigerator and Freezer Storage Upon Receipt

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Grade 9 to Undergraduate
Class Size 25 Students
Product Type Transformation Kit
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