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BIOL 2071: Microbial Growth assignment, Nov. 9. Use your answers to complete the Brightspace “quiz”: Nov. 9 In-class Growth Assignment, for up to 10 regular activity points. (This counts towards in-class assignments, not lecture quizzes.) You have two test tubes of growth media. You inoculate one tube with 1000 cells of Bacterium X which has a generation time of 60 minutes, and you inoculate the other tube with 10 cells of Bacterium Y, which has a generation time of 20 minutes. (Assume log phase begins at 0 min and continues until at least 240 min after that.) Bacterium X Bacterium Y Time after log phase begins Cells Time after log phase begins Cells Time after log phase begins Cells 0 min 1000 0 min 10 140 min 60 min 20 min 160 min 120 min 40 min 180 min 180 min 60 min 200 min 240 min 80 min 220 min 100 min 240 min 120 min 1. Which tube will have more bacteria after growing in log phase for 2 hours? 2. After 4 hours? A researcher is making serial dilutions from a culture of bacteria in liquid medium. 3. If 1 ml of the original culture is added to 9 ml of sterile saline, what is the dilution? 4. If 0.1 ml of the original culture is added to 0.9 ml of sterile saline, what is the dilution? 5. If 0.1 ml of the original culture is added to 9.9 ml of sterile saline, what is the dilution? 6. If 1 ml of the original culture is added to 9 ml of sterile saline (in tube 1), and 1 ml from tube 1 is added to 9 ml of sterile saline (in tube 2), what is the final dilution in tube 2? 7. If 0.1 ml of the original culture is added to 9.9 ml of sterile saline (in tube A), and 0.1 ml from tube 1 is added to 9.9 ml of sterile saline (in tube B), what is the final dilution in tube B? Table. Viable plate counts of dilution series made from an overnight culture of bacteria. Dilution: 10 -1 10 -2 10 -3 10 -4 10 -5 Colony counts, Replicate 1 TNTC TNTC 320 35 4 Colony counts, Replicate 2 TNTC TNTC 311 37 2 TNTC = too numerous to count. 8. A viable plate count was done, with results shown in the table above. What is the CFU/ml of the original culture?
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