STUDENTS:NENA KOUKOUGELI
                        DIMITRA-IOLI SKOUROLIAKOU
UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA GREECE
BIOLOGICAL APLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY
AQUATIC MICROORGANISMS

WEEK: 6th

LEFT: control

RIGHT: warmth-exposed

The differences between the two columns are more obvious from the 5th to the 6th week.

In the first column, growth of urple sulfur bacteria in the middle zone is more odvious.

Purple sulfur bacteria are group of proteobacteria capable of photosynthesis and they are illuminated in anoxic zones. Unlike cyanobacteria or plants they do not use water as ther reducing agent, so they do not produce oxygen. Instead, they use hydrogen sulfide from the botom of the bottle which oxidised ti produse granule of elemental sulfure

In both columns, is still observed the presence of biofilms, the concentration of which, is greater in the first column

After 6 weeks, it has started a gradual distinction in the zones of the column, starting with the disply of sulphates purple bacteria. Considering that the forementioned zoning hasn't been yet observed in the 2nd column we can safely assume that it's groth rate is considerably slower. This happens probably due to the rapid fluctuation of temperature that affects the bacteria, not only directly by limiting the growth of the non-resistant, at high temperatures, bacteria, but also it affects them indirectly by the overheating of the plastic bottle that excretes damaging chamicals.

Hypothesis: The rapid fluctuation of the temperature on daily basis, reduces the growth rate of the microorganisms in the 2^nd Winogradsky column