Goals:

• practice microscopy
• learn to use pipettor
• meet Tetrahymena
• literature research

Procedure:

• Observe the Tetrahymena in the well-plate using the dissecting microscope
• Use the pipettor to get 5 macroliters of the cells and put it on a concavity slide
• Look at the slide through a compound microscope
• Observe it through the 4x, 10x, and 40x and observe the ciliates

Data:

Future Goals: 

I am hoping that I can make an experiment to see how microplastics affect soil by using Tetrahymena. I am going to do that by looking at the reproduction rates of the Tetrahymena over a period of 24 hours and see how much the microplastics affect it.