"Freeze-Dried Specimens"

Pink to bright rose color.
Characterized by cilia; nearly all possess two types of nuclei.

Water mold and fish parasite. Demonstrates sporangia and oospores. Grows on wheat seed, cucumber seed, or hemp seed in water environment. Reproduces sexually and asexually. Incubation temperature 25°C.

Cell walls made of cellulose; feeds by extending hyphae into host's tissue.

Ideal for comparative study, the four cultures included in this set represent green algae's variety of physical morphologies.

Bring your high school biology text to life with the algal cultures included in this set of 12 cultures commonly found in high-school textbooks.

Termite flagellates live in the intestine of Zootermopsis termites as symbiotic organisms. They can be easily isolated and observed.

Freshwater. Colonial; net-like structure with multinucleated cells. Basic culture solution.

Characterized by green plastids and cell walls composed of cellulose.

Freshwater. Unicellular; triangular desmid. Basic culture solution. Characterized by green plastids and cell walls composed of cellulose.

Freshwater. Unicellular; heart-shaped cell. Soil-water medium.

Characterized by a lack of rigid cellulosic walls, instead these organisms have pellicles made of protein. They store paramylon instead of starch.

Marine. Unicellular; contains same pigments as other Golden Algae but contains haptonema, unique to Haptophyceae. Coccoid, from coccoliths. Marine medium. Characterized by golden yellow plastids.

Axenic culture. Food organism. Tetrahymena medium.

Characterized by cilia; nearly all possess two types of nuclei.