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Description
Includes
instructions, oil-eating microbes (powder), growth media, petri plates, 1N HCl, 1M NaOH, tetrazolium indicator powder, pH paper, and pipets
Requires
- Shaking incubation oven or stirrer and stir bars
- Autoclave
- Vegetable oil and other food oils
Bioremediation enhances this natural process to mitigate the effects of oil spills or other pollution events.
- Grow a mixture of oil-eating bacteria
- Demonstrate how their enzymes digest hydrocarbon molecules, promoting degradation
Specifications
Specifications
| Grade | 9 to Undergraduate |
| For Use With (Application) | To demonstrate bioremediation by oil eating bacteria |
| Includes | Instructions, oil eating bacteria, growth medium, pipets |
| Time Range | 50 min. |
| Content And Storage | Room temperature |
| Class Size | 10 Lab Groups |
| Product Type | Simulation Kit |
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