{"id":119,"date":"2020-10-30T21:49:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T21:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2020-10-30T21:49:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T21:49:34","slug":"module-4-kingdom-fungi-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Module 4 – Kingdom Fungi – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we looked at mushrooms and puffballs (thanks to Rosalie, friend of the lab, for contributing samples!). We examined them with the naked eye, with a magnifying glass, and looked at spores and some gills from a mushroom under the microscope (Exp. 4.1). We also observed yeast fermentation and looked at samples under the microscope immediately and then again >30 minutes later (Exp. 4.2).The two microscope pictures are the yeast sample after 30 minutes, one is unstained and one is stained with methylene blue. Notice the chains forming – that is the yeast budding! With all the various samples and sketching and slide making, we had a busy lab today! We did not get to make the biological key, so that is back to being an “on your own” exercise. I sent home the worksheet I made to help them distinguish between the different phyla of fungi (the differences between the phyla can largely be determined by looking for the spores). I encouraged them to finish it and bring it back next week to see if they were able to identify the phyla by the spore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make sure to prepare your mold for next week<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mushrooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Puffballs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yeast fermentation after 30 minutes, unstained<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yeast fermentation after 30 minutes, stained with methylene blue – the chains show the yeast budding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we looked at mushrooms and puffballs (thanks to Rosalie, friend of the lab, for contributing samples!). We examined them with the naked eye, with a magnifying glass, and looked at spores and some gills from a mushroom under the microscope (Exp. 4.1). We also observed yeast fermentation and looked at samples under the microscope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,13,35],"tags":[5,7,6,37,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garrettcreekacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}