Good News and Bad News...

So after returning back from my wonderful, feast-filled, stomach-stuffing and much-needed Thanksgiving break, I came back to Prep Room 201P... and guess what  surprise was waiting for me:

Fig 1: 15s flask with unidentified cloudy substance

A STRANGE YELLOWISH-BROWNISH FOREIGN CONTAMINANT!!! Those pesky bacteria!

Or maybe it was a fungus... I'm not sure.

But, in any case, the good news was that the duckweed colony was proliferating!!! ;D

Originally only one frond was placed into the flask - now, there were 5. Go asexual reproduction, go!

The other samples also showed signs of growth:

Clockwise from upper left: 30s, 1m, 1m30s

For now, I am just going to let the samples grow and not worry about the mysterious intruder in yellow.