Thursday's Post:
We spent most of the day helping with lab work on the soil samples that we helped collect on Monday. We worked on setting up an electrophoresis (how's that for a BIG word?) and prepaing some samples for PCR. Electrophoresis is a way to be sure we found living microbes in the soil. PCR makes thousands of copies of DNA from the bacteria. Here are a few pictures so you can see what the lab looks like.
We spent most of the day helping with lab work on the soil samples that we helped collect on Monday. We worked on setting up an electrophoresis (how's that for a BIG word?) and prepaing some samples for PCR. Electrophoresis is a way to be sure we found living microbes in the soil. PCR makes thousands of copies of DNA from the bacteria. Here are a few pictures so you can see what the lab looks like.
I also ran into a new friend. Maybe you have heard of him. His name is Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is also a world traveler - just like me. Stanley has been traveling around the planet for many years and has had many, many adventures. I asked him if he had any advice for me as I begin to travel to many of the places he has been around the world. Flat Stanley's advice was simple: Be yourself, be polite, take your time to be safe, and everyone has been on a great adventure!
This last picture is silly. I decided to put on a disguise for fun. I put on a purple glove from the lab so that I would look like a chicken. I got comments about it from several people. Some said that it was 'udder'ly ridiculous, while others told me I had a bad 'comb'-over.
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