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Experiment

Question

Will Penicillium Digatatum Mold grow on non-citrus fruits? And will Penicillium Roqueforti Mold grow on any fruit at all?

Hypothesis

We think that Penicillium Digatatum will grow on non-citrus fruits, and we think that Penicillium Roqueforti will grow on fruit.

Materials:

A thermometer

A microscope

Blue cheese

1 orange with the Mold Penicillium Digatatum already on it

4 types of fruit (apple, orange, banana and kiwi.)

16 container’s with lids

15ml of water per container

Q-tips

1 large rubber made box with a lid

And a warm room (average temperature 20 ˚C).

Method

We took the fruit and cut them in half.
Then we took the blue cheese and inoculated some of the fruit using a new Q-tip for each fruit (one orange, one apple, one banana and one kiwi)
Then we put these fruits into some of the container’s and put the 15ml of water in each container and put their lids on, we then labeled the lids so we would know which one was which.
Then we took the orange that already had the Mold Penicillium Digatatum on it and inoculated some of the fruit using a new Q-tip for each fruit (one orange, one apple, one banana and one kiwi).
Then we put these fruits into some of the containers and put the 15ml of water in the containers. Then we proceeded to put their lids on and we then labeled the lids again.
Next we put some of the fruit (one orange, one apple, one banana and one kiwi) in the remaining container’s and put the 15ml of water in each one, then we sealed the lids and labeled them once more, these were called the "controlled"
Then we took all of the container’s and put them all in the rubber made box
Next we put the box in the warm room and left it there. We proceeded to come back and check them every two days for 10 days.
After we were done the observations, we took the Mold out of the warm room and studied the Mold through a binocular microsc
Then we were done our experiment