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2 July 2010

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Urease Test

Aims

The aim of this experiment was to determine if Bacillus subtilis 168 is able to produce urease and degrade urea.

Procedures

The experiment was performed on 01.07.10. Please refer to Urease test.

Results

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Figure 1: Urease test results

  1. Negative control - No color change (Orange color)
  2. Test 1 (Duplicate) - Pink-red color
  3. Test 2 (Duplicate) - Pink-red color

Discussion

B. subtilis 168 is able to produce urease, therefore, urea which is the substrate and can be found in the agar was degraded, which results in ammonia building. The ammonia makes the media alkaline and therefore the indicator phenol red will change from orange color to pink-red color. The negative control did not turn pink-red color, therefore indicating that no contamination had occurred.

Conclusion

From the experiment it can be concluded that Bacillus subtilis 168 produces urease enzyme in order to break down urea and produces ammonium and carbonate ions.

LacI BioBrick Construction

Aims

  • To use PCR to extract lacI (promoter, ribosome-binding site (RBS) & coding sequence (CDS)) from plasmid pMutin4 and ligate into vector pSB1AT3 in front of red fluorescent protein (RFP).

Materials

None

Protocol

  • Transformed E. coli DH5alpha are stored in a refrigerator over the weekend.

Inference

  • Ecoli DH5alpha are kept viable by the colder temperature ready for plasmid extraction after the weekend.


Competent E. coli Production

Aims

  • To make a stock of competent E. coli (DH5alpha strain) ready for transformation.

Materials

  • Liquid culture of E. coli (DH5alpha strain).

Protocol

  • Cause E. coli (DH5alpha strain) to become competent.

Inference

  • We created a stock of competent E. coli (DH5alpha strain) that an be used for future transformations to grow up/replicate plasmids.
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