The wonderful world of cheese

In this lab we had a guest speaker from UCSD that was studying the world of cheese. She was nice enough to come to our class October 12,2016 and share some of the information she gathered with us. Also in this lab we were looking at different kind of cheese she got from a factory and studied it. I noticed that most of the cheese was contained with bacteria. In this case I learned that the bacteria actually helped the cheese in a good way. This made me think about not eating cheese again until I learned that the bacteria was actually good for the cheese. The purpose of this project was to know what type of DNA can live on our communities. At first we were shown slides of what is living on cheese such as microbes, fungi, bacteria, and also organisms. Then we looked at samples of cheese and seen what was on it. After we described what we seen and drew out a picture. Finally we used a microscope to look closely at the samples and were exposed to what was living on the cheese. The results of this lab show that DNA is able to live on other communities such as cheese. I’m still confused about how the microbes get onto the cheese and how the bacteria is created in the cheese. The big idea was to know more about cheese and the living organisms contained on it. I learned that bacteria and fungi was on cheese which really grossed me out. I also learned from the presentation from the guest speaker was that there are many kinds of cheese made all over the world. Finally I learned that microbes eat sugar, protein, and fat that is in cheese.