Discovered : The Great Unknown! {Lab 13 - May 29, 2015}

     So today, on the final day of lab, while Elisabeth did ELISA testing, I sat down to discover what bacteria our elusive unknown really was. 

     I looked over our descriptive chart that we had been keeping of all our test results. I also looked at some identification flow charts that would ultimately tell us what bacteria we had been dealing with for the past few weeks. 

     After some detailed analysis of the charts, I discovered what our great unknown was! Our unknown bacteria was : Escherichia coli!

Identification flow chart

Our descriptive chart

  




















     This may be similar to the process employed by medical lab workers to identify a bacteria that is causing an illness.