Grow Your Own Penicillin Testing Kit

This kit contains al the materials you need to grow Penicillium chrysogenum, the fungus that was discovered to produce penicillin. Using this kit you will grow Penicillium and then test the growth media for secreted antibiotics ability to kill non-disease causing and completely safe E. coli bacteria.

This kit is for educational purposes only and not meant to be used to treat any disease or illness.

Kit contents

Materials

10 - Pasteur pipettes

1 - Bag YPD media

1 - Glass bottle

1 - LB agar

1 - Plastic tub

1 - Sheet of foil

1 - 7 petri plate sleeve

1 - 10 nitrile gloves

10 - Inoculation loops

1 - 50mL tube for measuring

1 - Bag 1.5mL microcentrifuge tubes

1 - Sterile water

1 - Pair of tweezers

Strains

2 - Vials of Penicillium chrysogenum

2 - Vials of E. coli BL21