Blog 3

This week we began testing our bacteria for different characteristics and planning all the tests we will eventually perform. We started tests that will shows us the bacteria's tolerance for salt concentrations ranging from 1% to 9%. Also, plates were streaked then incubated at different temperatures ranging from 10ºC to 42ºC. The results of these tests, along with many others, will help to eventually define each of the bacteria samples. We are expected to find species within the three genera that we have been studying, Blastococcus, Modestobacter, and Geodermatophilus ,along with other known species. We may even begin to describe a new species of bacteria.