Hi. I am not a scientist or anything close. But I was teaching my 7 year old about germs this week and we did petri dishes as our new house.
The two I am curious about are the one we did on the inside of my water bottle straw and the gas stove-which is broken and waiting to cart off so not using|touching. We swabbed the little insert piece that is under the plate-where the flame starts.
Is there any way to identify a little more of each? Like why did the stove get this type when the whole house was cleaned (and I think professionally) before move in? And little to no traffic in the weeks prior. Stove hasn't been used in 5 months when owners moved out.
Would the water bottle one decipher if one is sick or healthy based off this?
Both grew instantly and it has been a week and I am going to dispose of them whereas the other ones we did were very slow (like 3 days) and still don't have much. Definitely don't think I did them correctly. But I did nothing different between the slow ones and the fast ones. I had properly cleaned hands, did not ever touch the tips of the q tips, and never opened the petri dish after.
Thanks.
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