Bibliography

McFarland, Kenneth [Internet] Botany 111 Fall 2013. [cited 10/24/2013]. Available from http://botany1112013.blogspot.com/

Patterson, D. J. 1996. Free-living Freshwater Protozoa, A Colour Guide. 5th impression. 2013. Manson Publishing.

Last Findings

Its's true but sad, today is my final post on botany lab. I was just getting into the groove of things nominated for grammys and everything then for it to end like this. Well for my final findings, I think I will end on a good note as I found yet some new organisms. First organism that I found passing slowly near plants was a cyclidium sp. which has chloroplasts (Patterson, 1996). The second one I found was called a thecamoaba sp. moving smoothly near the middle of the plants (Patterson, 1996). This organism had my lab instructor stunted because he was like "I don't know what this is" and I was like "boo- yaaa! Finally something he doesn't know". Next six min. he found what it was. Which stopped my dream of naming my first organism (so close). So back to what I was saying both these organisms were single celled. For some reason the number of organisms  decreased along with the amount of water that was in the microaquarium originally. This time looking for dead organisms I still did not see any dead matter BUTTTTT I found a large aeolosoma that Mr. Mc Farland told me about. It was so hideous that I decided to not take a pic and lose fans and potentially another grammy award.

(By far the coolest organism I found because those spherical matter on the inside moves in a circular motion to move the organism along)

So I hope you guys enjoyed my pictures and I promise I will post the fullllll vid of the anisonema reproduction. BYEEE for now *Sniff Sniff*

Findings in Plants

So after my grammy award for my amazing video, I decided to take up a new hobby and take photos of  the plants in my microaquarium to see if I get an award for best picture this time :D. I thought I must be born to do this because immediately I found a few vorticella sp. right between the leaves of the plants (Patterson, 1996). It's amazing what happens over a week as more diversity of organisms like these begin to grow and make themselves visible now. Unlike the last blog, these were stationary organisms very chilled and laid back. It was hard to tell whether or not they had chloroplasts because there were very transparent but if I had to guess I would say the vorticella sp. had no chloroplasts. I don't know if sand may have been covering dead organisms because I know that these organisms are evil and its about survival or if the other organisms are killing others without leaving a trace. The point is I don't see no dead remains. But i will show you my grammy nominated picture of the vorticella sp. (Patterson, 1996)

Stay tuned for more adventures...

Anisonema Reproduction

Came into the lab anxious found some great videos only to find out my stuff was not able to upload after much fighting with technologies so my apologies. I know everyone is excited for my scientific break through. Anyway, I found more moving organism.. yeah! When I saw moving I am talking about reproduction of an anisonema sp. reproducing (Patterson, 1996). It took me whole time I was there to set up and record this great site (we know my history with technology is not too brilliant). It was spotted some distance away from the plants isolated from areas of high traffic I am thinking. Anisonema had some green stuff in it but its highly unlikely to think it could be chloroplast (Patterson, 1996). From the last time I checked there were certainly more movement and certainly more organisms that I could see. No organisms were spotted to the bottom of the tank probably because I was too into the reproduction session of the anisonema  that I scanned too quickly. So now for the much anticipated grammy award winning video of the year :D.....!!! 

P.S. the video was much longer than that! But my professor cut it short and had me take out all the R-rated parts for you kiddies.

First Findings

In my Micro aquarium there were a lot of moving organisms as compared to my previous blog where there were none. This may be because Dr. McFarland added a food pellet to the micro aquarium. All the organisms were single celled and some had flagellas that twirled to pull them along, while others moved with flagellas behind them. I even saw a little bit of reproduction of Anisonema sp.(Patterson, 1996). There were many green organisms such as paranema sp. and anisonema sp. near the top of all the plants that were used (Patterson, 1996). In the population there were a lot of organisms again,with the twirling flagella at the top of the plants which is definitely more organisms than when I first had the aquarium. Surprisingly there were no dead organisms spotted.  Take a look at pics I found!

Next time you will see videos! Hopefully..

Micro Aquarium Set Up

I started by taking a sample of soil from my selected water source ( Carter Mill Park). I then filled my micro aquarium with to a couple milliliters with the soil sample. Next I added some water from the source to the micro aquarium so that it was almost filled to the top. After, I added plants to the micro aquarium and they were as follows: Amblestegium varium, Fontinalis sp and Utricularia gibba. When all the plants were added, I placed it under my microscope and began observing it. While observing with the different lens, I was only able to see the plant structure and some of the smaller parts that made it up like cell walls and at certain instances nucleus.

Stay tuned to see if I find any little, living creatures during my next adventure!