Materials for Option 1

• personal protection equipment (PPE)
• autoclave
• culture chambers
• laminar flow benches (or a comparable sterile workbench)
• storage under refrigeration
• micropipettes
• Parafilm M®
• petri dishes
• live bacterial hosts are available from Carolina.com, such as Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida (2-4 bacterial hosts are recommended)
• Carolina.com has phage culture kits

Materials for Option 2

Each group needs:

• 20 mung beans seeds / group
• NaCl
• distilled water
• petri dishes
• cotton gauze/sterile paper towels
• 500 mL - 1 L beakers
• stirring rod
• hot plate
• strainer with handle
• fine-mesh bag
• twine
• access to sink with cold water
• small stone or other weight
• thermometer
• forceps or tweezers
• timer