Protists - Living Material

Supplier: Ward's Science

Freshwater; large placoderm desmid; well-shaped semi-cells.

Live Cultures are supplied with media in 16 x 125 mm tubes, 2 oz. jars, or 8 oz. jars. Fast delivery is available directly from our laboratory. Please specify a delivery date.

Each culture shipment is prepared in our laboratories and includes the "Working with Algae & Cyanobacteria" manual which contains detailed instructions for subculturing and use.

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Supplier: Ward's Science

Freshwater. Unicellular; pennate, with bilateral symmetry. Basic culture solution.

Characterized by shells (tests) made of silica, in two parts.

Supplier: OCEAN RESOURCES, INC.

Marine. Macroalga. Kelp. Large specimen. Collected.

Kelp and seaweed; with a distinct set of photosynthetic pigments.

Supplier: Ward's Science

Freshwater. Unicellular; lunate. Proteose agar.

Characterized by green plastids and cell walls composed of cellulose.

Supplier: Ward's Science

Marine. Unicellular; small, centric cells. Marine medium.Characterized by shells (tests) made of silica, in two parts.

Supplier: Avantor

Collections of Specimens Used Most Often in Biology Classes

Supplier: Ward's Science

Very large ciliate. Feeds on colpidium. Hay medium.
Characterized by cilia; nearly all possess two types of nuclei.

Supplier: Ward's Science

Extremely small euglenoid. Usually doesn’t rotate when swimming. Scavenger. Hay medium.

Characterized by flagella; lacks plastids.

Supplier: Avantor

Specially Prepared “Real-Life” Combinations
The world is teeming with a wide variety of microlife, making studying samples of pond water complicated especially for the beginning student. To lessen the confusion, WARD’S has prepared different culture mixes that reflect protist combinations that occur in the real world, yet eliminates the hundreds of other life-forms found in a collected sample. Comes with a dichotomous key and either the Working with Algae or the Working with Protozoa manual. Supplied in a single jar.

Contents: Ocean scum.

Supplier: Ward's Science

This species of freshwater algae is commonly used for research on photosynthesis.

Supplier: Avantor

This "many-headed" organism is a plasmodial slime mold commonly found in forests on decaying deciduous trees. Available in both plasmodial and sclerotial stages.

Supplier: Ward's Science

Marine; Small Motile Cells with the Transverse Furrow Located Near the Apex.

Supplier: Avantor

Produce a Variety of Organisms Simply by Adding Water

Supplier: Ward's Science

Freshwater. Unicellular; desmid. Basic culture solution.

Characterized by green plastids and cell walls composed of cellulose.

Supplier: Ward's Science

Volvox globator is a species of colonial green algae that forms spherical colonies of cells.

Supplier: CONNECTICUT VALLEY BIO SUPPLY

Cellular slime mold. Demonstrates amoeboid state, pseudoplasmodial state, and fruiting body, or sorocarp. Found in woodland soil in decomposing vegetation where bacteria are abundant. Incubation temperature 25°C. Plate cultures grown with Enterobacteria as food source; freeze-dried cultures include food source.

Characterized by an amoeboid stage (lacking cell walls) and a fungus-like reproductive structure.