Is it Alive?

Anna Louise, Xavier, and

Madeleine

Questions We Tested

Does our unknown have cells?

Does our unknown adapt?

Can our unknown store/release energy?

Does our unknown develop?

Experiment #1: Does it have

cells?

We made a wet mount slide with our

unknown and looked at it under the

microscope

We could not discern any signs of cells

We also made a dry slide of just our

unknown and we took this picture:

Experiment #2 and 3 : Does it

adapt? Does it develop?

We tested this question by putting our

unknown in freshwater, saltwater, and soil.

We also made a constant.

The saltwater and freshwater were for

testing if our unknown was a plant,

animal, or fungi

The soil was for testing if it was a plant/ if it

responded to the soil.

Experiment # 4: Does it

produce CO2?

We put our unknown in a vial with some water

and a few drops of bromothymol blue.

We also made a constant by putting

bromothymol blue in a vial without the

unknown.

The purpose of this experiment was to test if

the unknown made energy (every organism

that makes energy produes trace amounts of

CO2)

Results

In Experiment 1, we found no trace of

cells. We found cube shaped things that

did not resemble animal or plant cells

In Experiment 2 and 3, we saw no change

or response to the different environments

In Experiment 4, we found that both vials

remained blue and produced no CO2

Conclusion

Based on our results from our experiments,

we have concluded that our organism is

not alive.

We were unable to test whether our

organism reproduced or not.