Team:HUNGENIOUS/Soil

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Human Practices
Collecting Soil Samples

Chitin's breakdown is a natural phenomenon. There are dozens of chitin-decomposing bacteria in the soil standing as keyfigures of the biogeochemical cycle. We have colleted soil samples from five different environments around Szeged to prove this phenomenon. The samples we gathered were from:
the courtyard of our school
the soil by a dogberry
the bank of river Tisza
the soil by an ash
from a flowerbed in a park. Thereafter we made soil solutions out of them to induce them on agar in order to produce bacterium cultures.