Sad Realizations in Biochemistry
Monday was my first Microbiology lecture and lab session, and both ran from 1-10pm. It was fantastic, and is one of the first challenging courses I've ran against so far at UMBC.
Our class experienced some earth shattering disappointment when we realized that that "chocolate agar" is not actually made from/with chocolate, but rather cow/sheep blood cells that have already lysed, giving it its slightly brownish color. :( *sob*
(Even though some are microbiologists in training, you can tell that we're still kids, really. LOL.)
*Sidenote: "amusing" is subjective. However, edible agar made from real chocolate would be a fantastic gift for bio-nerds , so I think I'll find a way to mass produce and market it. Maybe I could put little multicolored non-pareils on it to represent clusters of bacteria or something.
Yummmm.
Our class experienced some earth shattering disappointment when we realized that that "chocolate agar" is not actually made from/with chocolate, but rather cow/sheep blood cells that have already lysed, giving it its slightly brownish color. :( *sob*
(Even though some are microbiologists in training, you can tell that we're still kids, really. LOL.)
*Sidenote: "amusing" is subjective. However, edible agar made from real chocolate would be a fantastic gift for bio-nerds , so I think I'll find a way to mass produce and market it. Maybe I could put little multicolored non-pareils on it to represent clusters of bacteria or something.
Yummmm.