DEMONSTRATIONS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE DETECTION TECHNIQUES IN THE HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY LABORATOR.

The article demonstrates the extraterrestrial life detection techniques used in the study of exobiology in the high school biology laboratory. Introducing the study of exobiology to students at the high school level can serve to enhance and reinforce the biological learnings of a terrestrial nature. The study of exobiology will introduce the rarely seen science of astronomy into the interdisciplinary structure of biology. The Gulliver is a life detecting instrument which detects bacterial growth by determining the formation of radioactive carbon dioxide from carbon labeled substrates. Another instrument, the Multivator, attempts to detect microbe life by the presence of specific catalysts, particularly phosphatase. Measurement of microbiological growth is the basis of an instrument known as the Wolf Trap.