Fiona Kiosses wrote:
> If I may put my 2 cents in (ducking for cover) when I was at high school, we
> pressed our fingertips into some agar, and looked at what grew. Didn't
> identify or isolate, but it was this experiment that triggered my interest
> in the area. Who knows, if my biology teacher had not done this experiment,
> I may now be a lawyer or something like that, and that notion frightens me!
> Science teachers need a little knowledge in a lot of areas, and I imagine it
> would be difficult to be teaching such a wide spectrum of disiplines, of
> course there will be shortfalls in their knowledge in comparison to someone
> who has spent 4 years or so just learning about one disipline.
> FK,
> gritting my teeth, waiting for the fireworks.
Good God, not your fingers!!! What about agar-agar poisoning?!? ;)