• Question: whats the hardes orginisam to find

    Asked by KK to Lea, Emma, Christopher, Ashley, Ananthi, Aaron on 10 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Ananthi Ramachandran

      Ananthi Ramachandran answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      There is a bacteria that my previous boss always used to try and show me down the microscope called Mycoplasma, it’s really tiny. Everytime she told me it was there I couldn’t see it, all I could see was dust! Because it’s so small I would say that one, you can’t rely on the microscope for that one so you have to do other methods where you detect its DNA instead

    • Photo: Emma Stevenson

      Emma Stevenson answered on 11 Nov 2017:

      There are some Bacteria in the soil and is that we cannot grow in the lab. We only know they exist because we have powerful equipment that has detected their DNA in samples. So, these bacteria are pretty hard to find

    • Photo: Aaron Brown

      Aaron Brown answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      Good question and I’m not really sure how to answer as a lot of the microorganisms I work with are very common haha

    • Photo: Christopher Richardson

      Christopher Richardson answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      I’d say the ones that we haven’t discovered yet! haha!

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