GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Fei Xie

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- Physarum polycephalum

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- What happened in the blank petri dish?

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CONCEPT
By feeding physarum polycephalum, I found that many creatures are living by our side. They have different living habits from us, but they will live in their own way. They will have their own social circle and have completely different social rules. From the perspective of the universe, maybe we are also bacteria on the earth. So I want to know what bacteria are around me and what they look like.

INSPIRATION
This is the extra petri dish from the physarum polycephalum test. There are no objects placed in it except the agar base. After two weeks in the same environment as other physarum polycephalum, the magic is that different mold spots grow inside. I think it is very interesting. Many creatures live stubbornly in our unconsciousness. Judging from the appearance of mold, these should not be the same kind of bacteria. So I want to study what bacteria are around us and what these bacteria look like. I want to get acquainted with familiar strangers around us through this experiment.

PLAN
I want to take my day’s life as an example, take bacterial samples from the surfaces of objects I touch, and then put them in a petri dish for cultivation and observation.