In this lab we were first assigned to go out and swab any place in the school with a cotton swab. I went to the wrestling room and I swabbed under the wrestling mats. I thought this a perfect area for bacteria to grow because it is often dark warm and moist. We then put the bacteria onto a petri dish that had agar in it. We incubated and we found that we only had a little bit of yellow and white bacteria growth on it. I thought there would be a lot more because of the area I got it from. Then we swabbed some of the bacteria on the petri dish onto another petri dish but this time we made the bacteria all over the agar.

Then we got five different types of disinfectants, including water, to see how well the disinfectants worked. I brought...