termite lab

Helo mr.marggraf :) this is the rest of the stuff you wanted me to post.

Symbiotic relationship: dissimilar organisms in a mutualy benificial relationship.
Here we are talking about termites and protozoa. Protozoa get a place to live and food to eat, the protozoa brake down the cellulose from wood and turn it in to acetate, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and methane.
Termites get acetate, this is termites source of energy.

Our lab was pretty simple, first mr.marggraf gave us our termite, then we pulled its guts out. we placed the guts in a drop of saline solution on our microscope slide, then smooshed them a bit and looked at them (the guts).

my personal reflection: see previous posts :) (the most recent video)

This is the last video from the lab. It was really funny because aspen and jimmy tried to pull the just out of the termite and they just pulled it in half then we got a new termite and i tried and i even have the shakes but i still did it way better then them, haha.

This is the second video from that day in class.

This video is from when my group in class disected a termite so we could look at its guts under a microscope, there are three videos that we took during this , this is just one.