Wednesday, March 10, 2010

the bacteria in milk pt. 2

  • as i have not fully thought about how i will coduct this experiment, i cannot say whether it is 100% reliable. however, what i have thought about now seems to be pretty good. the milks will be swabbed at the same time, twice to make sure that the temperature at which they are swabbed in is the same for both the first and second trials. i don't know whether i should leave them at room temperature or whether i need an incubator.
  • as mentioned before, the milks will be swabbed twice at the same time (for one type of milk two serial dilutions will be done) to ensure the experiment is fair.
  • Yessum, it certainly can be conducted within the time frame. at the very least it will take 2 weeks, to get everything ready and to wait for the bacteria to grow. even if it does take 3 days to grow bacteria, i think i can leave the dilutions in the agar plates for a day or two more :) all together it shold take 3-5 weeks (that's a very rough approximation)
  • everything can be conducted at home, home equipment can be used and im not sure about whether to get an incubator or not, still need to think about that. if i do need one i think my parents can get me one :D
  • can i give a valid and conclusive result? oh, now there's a question. i haven't done the experiment so i cannot answer that question properly. but i believe that a valid and conclusive response can be drawn from the results of the experiment. Organic milk should have different bacteria quantity to soy milk and skim milk, full cream milk may be similar to skim milk etc.
i think im done now.. ok i'll go through everything once more to make sure i have evrything.

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