814 Month: November 2020 (page 16 of 28)

Air Sample

On the right is the PDA and the left is the CMA. I took an air sample out of my balcony. This was an interesting one because it…

Lemon Peel and Carrot Sample

On the right is the PDA and the left is the CMA. The lemon peel (white and black colonies) and the moldy carrot (orange and white colonies) was…

Sad Potato and Sad Broccoli Stem

On the right is the PDA and on the left is the CMA. The Moldy Potato (Red and white colonies) and moldy broccoli stem (white, black, and brownish…

Banana Stem and Orange Peel

On the right is the PDA and the left is the CMA. I plated the moldy banana stem and fresh orange peel here. The PDA has more colonies…

Healthy Leaf Vs Brown Leaf

On the right is the PDA and left is the CMA. The healthy leaf and brown leaf are both plated here. The healthy leaf has the white looking…

Wilted Kale and Cloudy looking Leaf sample

On the plates I have plated samples of wilted yellowish kale (left) and a leaf which had a cloudy covering on it (right side -did not appear healthy…

Dirt from a Lavender Plant’s Pot (On PDA and CMA Media)

These plates are soil samples taken from a pot on my balcony that contains a lavender plant. PDA is on the right and CMA is on the left….

Gross Pear and Depressed Parsley (On PDA and CMA Media)

These plates are halved with a rotten pear’s flesh on the left and a single leaf of parsley on the right. CMA plate is on the left and…

Death of a Jade Plant (On PDA and CMA Media)

This set of plates is divided in two. On the left is a healthy leaf tissue sample from my dying jade plant and on the right is a…

Balcony Air on a Cold Day (On PDA and CMA Media)

These plates were left on my 3rd floor balcony for around 30 minutes. The left it plated on CMA and the right is plated on PDA. The PDA…

Sea Monkey Water ( No sea monkeys harmed in collection)

Both plates include a sample of water from my long lived sea monkey tank. PDA is on the left and CMA is on the right. I was expecting…

Air from my kitchen

The bottom is the PDA and the top is the CMA mediums. These were left on my kitchen counter near the compost bin. The growth appears to be…

Soil sample tested on CMA and PDA media

This photo represents a soil sample from a pot tested on both PDA and CMA media. According to the photo, I would say that PDA sample presented a…

Daiya cheese vs a piece of Apple ( CMA and PDA media)

This photo represents a piece of apple versus a piece of Daiya cheese tested on both CMA and PDA media. According to the photo, the CMA media presents…

Healthy vs Brown root of Pothos plant (PDA& CMA media)

This photo represents a Healthy vs Brown root of Pothos plant presented on both CMA and PDA media. As demonstrated by the picture, CMA shows a higher growth…

Green leaf vs Brown leaf (CMA&PDA)

This photo represents a sample of a dying (brown) leaf, versus an alive (bright green) leaf on both CMA and PDA media. The photo represents a higher growth…

Bathroom Floor vs Shower Curtain (CMA&PDA)

This photo demonstrates a swab of the inside of a shower curtain and a swab of the bathroom floor plated on both CMA and PDA media. As presented…

Doorknob Swab vs Vacuum Dirt

On the both left sides of the plates, a doorknob swab was used as a sample. And on the right sides of the plates, a little amount of…

Air sample from shoe closet

This shows an air sample taken from my shoe closet. The top plate is CMA and bottom is PDA. Both of the media have similar growth mainly of…

Dead pieces of: Potato and Leaf

On the left side of the plates is a piece of a moldy potato. The sample on the right side of the plates is a small piece of…

Green and brown leaves media comparison

This shows a green leaf on the right and brown leaf on the left. The top plate is PDA media and bottom is CMA media. there is significant…

Soil from the park

This sample is of soil from a local park. The top plate is PDA and bottom is CMA. There are significant differences in growth between the plates. The…

Green vs Brown Lemon

This sample is taken from lemon skin of green colour on the right, and dark brown on the left. The top media is PDA and bottom is CMA….

murky water fungi growth

This media contains a water sample taken from murky water from my backyard. The top plate is CMA and bottom plate is PDA. Although there is growth of…

Air Sample from Outside my House

For this sample, I left the plates outside the front door of my house for around an hour. The growth in the media is pretty much the same…

Aloe Vera Plant

Here I have plated samples of an aloe vera plant leaf. The CMA is showing growth of brown coloured dots of fungi. The PDA is showing growth of…

Feta Cheese versus Havarti Cheese

Here I have plated two different cheeses. Feta Cheese on the bottom side of each plate, and Havarti Cheese on the top side of each plate. The samples…

Kitchen sink sponge versus kitchen sink towel

On the bottom side of both plates is the towel sample, however on the top (CMA) plate the sponge sample seems to have moved over. The two media…

Phone swabs (Me vs. my mom)

I swabbed my phone with Q-tips and swabbed onto the plates, and then did the same with my moms phone. The two media look to be sharing similar…

Jade leaf and soil

In the middle of the picture is the soil side on both plates, on the top and bottom edge of the plates are the jade leaf samples. CMA…