Tell me you're not from the same school as i am.
D:
*cough* anyway, thanks to you guys, i am now growing a beautiful microbe from chicken. I ended up using the sterile Q-tips.
Alright, my microbe, which apparently, is a fungus--- is growing only one plate, but that's alright. Anyway, here are the characteristics of my "fungus"
Form: Circular
Elevation: Raised
Margin: Entire, but it maybe curled...
Texture: Soft, fluffy-like
Colour: white
Size: 3cm in diameter, but i can' be sure, since it's sticking near the edge of the plate.
I also enquired on YahooAnswers, and some poster told me it may have/be hyphae...?
@Charon: The thing is, that our teacher wants us to identify the microbe, and only told us that we're not growing pathogenic microbes. But i searched up on microbes that may grow on chicken, and i keep getting Salmonella. >.>
Anyway, anyone out there that has a good website on identifying food microbes?
All help is loved <3
@Maria Angelica: Does your school have an incubator? You should use that. But for us, we had to find our own way of making it warm. Luckily for us, it's been a hell of a hot week in Australia (New South Wales area) so i just placed it in a Maccers cardboard drink holder, covered it with newspaper and put it on the window still---although this can't be as good as an incubator, and may hinder the investigation, you can still talk about this in your discussion and gain extra points/marks for identifying that problem.
Remember, as my teacher says: This is science, and sometimes, it just doesn't work.