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Environmental Toxicity Response in C. elegans 856
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In one week, your students will feel like real scientists working with animals under the microscope! Caenorhabditis elegans is a soil nematode that offers great potential for educational research, partly because of its rapid (3-day) life cycle, small size (1.0-mm-long adult), and ease of laboratory growth cultivation. One can only imagine how thousands of animals grow on a single petri dish seeded with a lawn of Escherichia coli as the food source. Students will engage in an environmental toxicity scenario, when they will use pre-diluted concentrations of heavy metal solution to determine the effect on the worms. Time courses will be assessed and LD toxicity will be determined.
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Kit includes: instructions, C. elegans-normal, C. elegans-Toxicity mutant, petri dishes, NGM medium, E. coli 0P50 Bactobeads™, cell counting chambers, buffer, pipettes, sterile loops, tubes and heavy metal compounds.
All You need: ethanol, timers, microscopes, covered box.
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