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(Microscopic Life Kit
Explore the microscopic world with your compound microscope! With this kit you can grow and examine bacteria, investigate tiny pond protozoa, and get an up-close look at some of the cells in your own body! The kit includes a study guide to help you learn more about microscopic life, plus instructions and materials to make your own slides and study bacteria and protists. Contains petri dishes, sterile nutrient agar, protozoa mix, microscope slides, stains, and more. Ages 12 & up.The study guide includes a short history of the microsope, mini bio of Louis Pasteur, diagram of a cell, and more.
Kit Contents
- 72 plain glass slides
- 12 concave glass slides
- Slide coverslips
- Methylene blue stain (for cell nuclei)
- Eosin Y stain (for cell cytoplasm)
- Prepared microscope slides: ficus leaf, paramecium, protozoa, bacteria, and allium (onion) root mitosis
- #11 scalpel (for making tiny cross-sections)
- 1 bottle of nutrient agar
- 5 plastic petri dishes
- 2 sterile swabs
- Latex gloves
- Protozoa mix to grow euglena, etc.
- Protist identification key
- 2 sterile lancets
- Study guide with information about cells, bacteria, and other microscopic life
