Pits

Suggest you get a little practical help/training rather than jumping immediatly into agar plates, E. coli and swabbing arm pits. Unlikely that you'll generate any risky situations but a little intial training can take you beyond "gee whiz" to learning something.

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if you want to use known bacteria then get your hands on some ecoli and swab it on an agar plate or just wipe your arm pits with a cotton bud and wipe it on the agar plate you'll be suprised what turns up. :D :D :) :) :mrgreen:

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... the early organisms know or create an element that did not exist on earth? 2)In the Miller-Urey experiments, their tube contained 85% tar. The tar pits contain tar. The tar pits encased life at the instant it stepped into it. Even if a complex organism with complex organelles (cell) could develop ...

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... vents, but they did not in any way require O2. In fact, O2 was probably poisonous to the organisms due to its oxidizing power. The tar pits that you have used in your point #2 have nothing to do with the Miller-Urey experiments. As for point #4, the amount of DNA in a typical human ...

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In reference to the presence of tar: tar does not represent the majority of the conditions around the world. The tar pits are rare to California. It is not an accurate representation of life on Earth. Yes, there are anaerobic bacteria. However, how can organisms who need and produce ...

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