sh. There were a few dead fish after the first week that were removed from the petri dishes. The water from the control dish and the quantum dot solution were emptied out from the petri dishes and new water and solution were added. 10 fish from each dish were preserved in a solution so that they could be observed in the case that the other fish died by the second week. By the second week, most of the fish had died. Only one fish from the treated dish survived. The preserved fish were observed under a UV light. Neither of the tubes containing controlled and treated fish showed any signs of quantum dot effects. There were some specks of red underneath the UV light, but it was most likely contamination of some sort and not a quantum dot. None of the quantum dots penetrated the fish.
The embryogenesis development stages of various organisms were observed through looking at slides of frog, chick and starfish development. The zebrafish experiment allowed for us to watch the progress of growing fish embryos. Although most fish died and none of the quantum dots appeared in the preserved fish, it was still successful in that one fish managed to survive in the treated dish by the end of the second week.