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Explore all the different career paths a microbiologist can take.

The experiment in this lesson plan demonstrates two main ideas. The first is a test of what levels of nitrate and phosphate allow for optimum algal growth. The second demonstrates at which levels of nitrate and phosphate algal blooms may occur, causing harm to an aquatic ecosystem.

Students design an experiment, with appropriate controls, to measure yeast fermentation of different foods using gas generation in a closed system with balloons.