236 Photos Categorized "Week 3 – Comparing media" (page 6 of 8)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The right is the PDA and the left is the CMA. Both plates have a significant amount of growth in terms of diameter, however, height wise, the PDA…
The right is the PDA and the left is the CMA plate. The media plates appeared to have different fungi that have grown, but the PDA plate has…
The right is PDA and the left is CMA. The PDA plate appeared to have a lot more growth than the CMA plate. It might also be a…
The PDA plate is the top and the CMA plate is the bottom. Both plates showed massive overgrowth with the wilted sample in comparison to the healthy one….
This is an air sample that was taken near my kitchen sink where the compost also is. These were set out for an hour each . The top…
Greening potato flesh sample (right) and spore print from unknown lawn little brown mushroom. CMA(right ) displayed faster fungal growth from the potato sample (PDA growth is still…
Black bell peper stem(left) and old smelly sponge. PDA(left) showed a more compact and fuzzy growth of one species from the bell peper sample while CMA showed a…
From a plant pot soil sample. PDA(left) displayed flat, pigmented growth while CMA displayed fuzzy white growth. PDA produced more defined colonies so I would say it would…
Bathroom air sampled for 1 hour from bathroom counter. Both media pear to be growing different species or displaying different morphologies. PDA(left) displays. small colonies with orange pigments…
Brown lime(bottom) and sink sample(top). More prolific bacterial growth on CMA (right) from sink sample and condensation contamination. None display major fungal growth. PDA would be better due…
This is rainwater and gutter water that empties into a rain barrel in my backyard. The left (PDA) plate seems to have more types of growth; there is…
This is a swab of black mold from my window sill. The left (PDA) plate has this black and green growth as well as a good amount of…
This is dirt from my indoor aloe plant pot. The left (PDA) plate has more dense white fuzz growth. The right (CMA) plate has less dense white fuzz…
This is dirt from my backyard garden. The left (PDA) plate contains more white fuzz growth as well as has some green and yellow colonies as well. The…