Question: How does vinegar affect the growth of bacteria?

Rationale: It will help people who like natural cleaners and it can be cheaper, and people can use a
cheap material to clean in their houses.

What we know from our research:

We learned the difference between acids and bases.

We learned that Pasteurella bacteria is in birds, and they get in birds by biting their skin.

We learned that lots of acids are dangerous in different ways.

There are more bacteria on your body than people on earth.

Sites we used for research:

Bacteria Facts 2

Bacteria facts 3

Bactria facts 4

Acids and bases

20 things about bacteria

Our Hypothesis: We think vinegar will kill the bacteria because acid can be used to clean bacteria at
your house.

Materials:

1. Petri Dishes
2. White vinegar
3. Seahawk (our class green cheek conure {bird})
4. Cotton swabs
Steps of our experiment:
1. First, we took bacteria samples the door, the floor, and our class bird (our class green cheek
conure) with a cotton swab.
2. Next, using a cotton swab we put the sample on a petri dish.

3. Then we dipped a cotton swab in white vinegar and put the vinegar in a “X” shape.

4. We then waited a about a week for the bacteria to grow.

5. When it grew we wrote down the results.

6. then, take a cotton swab and get two bacteria samples from Seahawk (our class green cheek
conure

7. Then we put one bacteria sample on a plain petri dish.

 8. Last, if there is a “X” in the bacteria it means the bacteria did not grow and our hypothesis was
right.

We used Seahawk[bird] because of these steps:

1. First, we took samples from Seahawk, the floor, and the door
2. Next, we waited for the bacteria to grow
3. Last, we checked it, and Seahawk had the best bacteria because, she had the most consistent
bacteria and the most.

Our Results:

Day 1 Day2

Conclusion:

Looking at our results, our original hypothesis was wrong. One way we know it is wrong is that bacteria
grew on the vinegar, and fungi did too. We think this happened because the vinegar could not kill the
bacteria, or the fungi. Another interesting that happened was that the bacteria grew better when we tested
the bacteria before the experiment. I think this was because we got bacteria from different parts of the
bird. In conclusion, it turns out that fungi grew on the vinegar “X” but so did bacteria. If I were to do this
again, two things I would change would be putting the same bacteria from the same spots or over the “X”
another thing I would change is that we could have had more bacteria samples.

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Follow up:
Question: How does vinegar affect the growth of fungi if it is completely covered in vinegar?

Rational: It could help stop the growth of fungi in kitchens or doctor's tools.

Steps:

1.Get two bacteria samples from the floor because that had the most fungi grow in it (the floor).

2.Put one of the samples on a blank petri dish and one on a petri dish with vinegar, then you will see
if the fungi can will grow on the vinegar or on a blank petri dish.

3. Make sure that the petri dish is closed so no extra bacteria get in.

4.If the vinegar stops the fungi from growing, we are correct and can send our research to be tested

Hypothesis:

We don’t think that vinegar will stop fungi from growing in the petri dish.

Conclusion:

Looking at our results, our original hypothesis was wrong. One way we know it is wrong is that the same
fungi grew and there was no difference. We think this happened because vinegar is not strong enough to
kill the fungi. Another interesting that, that happened was that some of the fungi that grew on the vinegar
one did not grow on the blank one. I think this was because vinegar was strong enough to kill some of the
fungi. In conclusion, it turns out that the vinegar was not strong enough. If I were to do this again, two
things I would change would be that we would make the samples more accurate and put more vinegar on
the petri dish.