Told you guys that quiz would NOT be what I expected. Dr. H thinks it's great fun to "wake us up on Mondays" by putting a question he KNEW nobody would be able to figure out on the quiz. Fortunately, he seemed to get a kick out of the fact that none of us got it, so I think (hope) he won't be counting that against us. The other question seemed okay. I hope I didn't make a stupid mistake on it. He gave us two take home quizzes, I'm going to do one before I leave so I don't have both of them hanging over my head tonight/tomorrow. In other news, Doc kindly re-streaked the plates for me, isolating colonies that he thought might give us an interesting yield (YAY). Unfortunately, however, when I gram stained them a few minutes ago all I got were stupid gram negative and gram positive rods (bacillus). Not a single sporocarcina cell to be found. Guess it's back to the drawing board. :P Also, I thought I would include a few pictures of what I do: One is of the chemicals I use to make a gram stain (plus my six plates in the background), one is of my flaming my "loop" to make it sterile (using a fire boy, not a Bunsen burner) and one is of me making urea agar in the big pot (before it started boiling). So... there you go. Bets, that was especially for you. :)