GMU:Board Games for Humans and Nonhumans/Short introduction to organisms

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Organisms

  • Chlorococcum spec. / Chlorella / green algae / plants
  • Ants / bugs / animals
  • Midges / Drosophila / bees / flying animals
  • Phages / viruses
  • Spirulina / Cyanobacteria / photosynthetic bacteria
  • Microbiota / random bacteria
  • physarum polycephalum / dictyostelium discoideum / slime molds / protists
  • yeasts / mycelium / fungi
  • daphnia / water flees / fishes / animals

Senses

  • olfactory senses
  • light
  • motion
  • temperature
  • magnetic fields
  • nutrients
  • touch

Introduction to the lab equipment

  • Petri dishes / eppendorf tubes
  • Centrifuges
  • Laminar hood
  • Microscopes
  • Incubator / freezer / fridge
  • PCR

Introduction to ingredients

  • agar agar
  • peptone / proteins
  • salts
  • ...

Home work

Every student takes one organism and makes a presentation on it including a) life cycle b) nutrients c) related projects