"Avantor"

Mold structures

Fungal Processes

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

Ascomycete. Baker’s yeast. Reproduction by budding. Incubation temperature 30°C. YM agar growth medium.

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

Zygomycete. Common black bread mold. Lab contaminant. Mating strain, cross with Rhizopus stolonifer (nigricans) (-) to produce zygospores. Incubation temperature 25°C. Potato dextrose agar growth medium.

Zygomycete. Common black bread mold. Lab contaminant. Mating strain, cross with Rhizopus stolonifer (nigricans) (+) to produce zygospores. Incubation temperature 25°C. Potato dextrose agar growth medium.

Put a piece of Earth's ancient history in the hands of your students.

Conifers come in all shapes and sizes — and so do their cones.
Includes: 6 pine cones, 6 spruce cones and 6 cedar cones.
*Pine cone factoid: Pine cones can forecast the weather! In dry weather, the scales dry up and open out. If they start to close up, wet weather is coming!

Silvery, paragranite and muscovite-rich with medium garnet crystals.

Fine, common limestone; massive, and will fizzle with HCl.

White and black bands of quartz, feldspar, and biotite; typical foliation.

Light pink, massive, crystalline, translucent.

An introductory rock set contains six samples from each of the three major rock types.

Teach your students about the complete metamorphosis of an insect with these mealworms.

Includes: six each of conglomerate, sandstone and shale. Set of 18.

Common rocks and minerals for testing and identification studies are 2–3cm each.