Simple Life--Protists
I am finally getting around to posting. I have been too caught up in my project (O_o) lately!
Actually...
I am done collecting my data. The past two months or so have been filled with going down to the creek, collecting samples, viewing them under the microscope, and sketching what I see in my field of view. The samples came from three different areas each of the three trials.
A=squeezed from the PF block
B=deeper water (pool)
C=shallower water (riffle)
I decided whether or not the protists I saw were algae (plant-like) or protozoa (animal-like) and made a still-incomplete table of that data. Now I am working on typing up my final report.
I have also discovered that my original hypothesis is not supported at all by the collected data. In the beginning, I thought that the most protists, would be found in sample A; however, after viewing all the samples, C is actually the one with the most algae AND protozoa. I thought this was interesting and wonder why this is so.