Week 4 Lab 3 Microbiology Pre-Lab

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Week 4 Lab 3 Prelab Assignment (1) Write Purpose statements for each part of the lab we will carry out in week 4. (2) Read the following on Canvas Module “Week 4 – Lab 3: The Ultimate Social Network – on microbes. Scientific American article (3) Review handout from previous week to review streaking, serial dilutions and spreading techniques (4) Read lab handout: a. pp. 1- 3; b. read pages 19-22 c. 6-8; do the practice problem on p. 8 include steps used to solve this practice problem along with the Purpose statements and submit these as the prelab assignment on Canvas. QUESTION 7 (2 pt) Practice problem You plated 0.1 ml of various dilutions of a bacterial culture. The plate inoculated with the 10 -3 dilution had about 1000 colonies, the plate inoculated with the 10 -4 dilution had 108 colonies, and the plate inoculated with the 10 -5 dilution had 13 colonies. What was the CFU or cell concentration in the original bacterial culture? Show how you calculated the answer. (HINT: Review page 10 of this handout) (5) (6) Calculating bacteria in an original culture – video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdnOjoOO6qY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6gSiJVJBs
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