NEMATOLOGY 100
Laboratory Exercise 10
Purpose:
Term Project: Introduction to Management
Plans; background for the Dear Becky Letter.
Lab Project:
Powerpoint presentation: Nematodes as
Bioindicators.
- Count the nematodes that you extracted from your soil samples.
- Divide the suspension in half, save one half for future lab periods and
centrifuge the other half.
- Siphon off the supernatant and resuspend the pellet in the small volume of
water remaining.
- Place suspension on a microscope slide, immobilize nematodes with gentle
heat, apply coverslip and seal.
- Categorize 100 nematodes into trophic guilds per
lab handouts and
instruction.
- Record data on sheet provided.
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