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The Effects Of Tetracycline And Ibuprofen On Common Duckweed, Lemna Minor, John Von Drasek
The Effects Of Tetracycline And Ibuprofen On Common Duckweed, Lemna Minor, John Von Drasek
2015 Honors Council of Illinois Region Student Symposium
Pharmaceuticals and chemicals are finding their way into drinking water by means of household and industrial sewage. This study explores the effects of two common pharmaceuticals—tetracycline and ibuprofen—on the growth of Common Duckweed, Lemna minor. The number of duckweed per test tube for each treatment was compared after 37 days. Tetracycline was not found to effect clonal growth of duckweed. There was significant difference in duckweed count between the ibuprofen treatment and the control treatment with ibuprofen inhibiting the growth of the duckweed. It is possible that the tetracycline prevented the protein synthesis of any harmful bacteria growing with the …