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Hi,
My Biology teacher has asked if his year 9 students can make slides using the mould from bread.
Is this allowed do you know?

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One of my teachers will be doing it as a demo - piece of sticky tape to pick up the mould from a piece of bread in a Ziploc bag. She'll put the tape on a slide so they can look at it under the microscope.