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Live specimens are used for a wide variety of studies including studying the physiological effects of drugs on a specimen’s heartbeat and temperature on metabolism, the locomotion of microscopic organisms, and studying plant respiration, photosynthesis, plosmolysis, and more. Algal cultures form colonies of cells that are extremely easy to visualize for better understanding of cell walls and plastids, and many live specimens reproduce rapidly for quick turnover between successive tests.

Live specimens are used for a wide variety of studies including studying the physiological effects of drugs on a specimen’s heartbeat and temperature on metabolism, the locomotion of microscopic organisms, and studying plant respiration, photosynthesis, plosmolysis, and more. Algal cultures form colonies of cells that are extremely easy to visualize for better understanding of cell walls and plastids, and many live specimens reproduce rapidly for quick turnover between successive tests.


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Supplier: Ward's Science
Description: Paramecium caudatum is a common protist that inhabits a variety of aquatic ecosystems.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: This organism is commonly recovered from soil and water. As normal intestinal flora, it can also usually be found in sewage.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: This organism is a common environmental isolate, and can be found in soil as well as in industrial settings.

Supplier: Ward's Science
Description: Oscillatoria is a genus of filamentous green algae that moves by sliding filaments back and forth against each other.

Catalog Number: (470183-812)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Ward's Science is not endorsed by or affliated with FOSS curriculum in any way.


Supplier: Avantor
Description: This organism is often times isolated from food; in large amounts it can cause food poisoning

Supplier: WATERSCAPES AQUATIC NURSERY
Description: An excellent aquarium oxygenator, Elodea densa is great for teaching plant respiration, photosynthesis, and plasmolysis.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Rhizopus stolonifer (nigricans) (+) Demo Plate

Catalog Number: (470176-856)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Mold structures


Catalog Number: (470092-804)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Shell Assortment


Supplier: Avantor
Description: This organism is commonly found in soil and water, and is also associated with spoiled food. It produces a diffusible fluorescent pigment.

Catalog Number: (470175-824)
Supplier: Ward's Science
Description: Drosophila virilis, For 35 Students


Supplier: Avantor
Description: Use Sordaria fimicola to allow students to visualize the results of crossing over during cell division.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: This yellow, shiny organism is known to cause wound infections and more famously, toxic shock syndrome.

Supplier: Avantor
Description: Spirogyra is a genus of filamentous green algae with chloroplasts arranged in a helical (spiral) pattern.

Catalog Number: (470210-932)
Supplier: Avantor
Description: Ward's Science is not endorsed by or affliated with FOSS curriculum in any way.


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