A water sample was taken from the Waikato River and returned to the laboratory to analyse water quality parameters. If the agar plate CFU number counting method is used, we can only expect 0.1 - 10% of the containing microbial species can form colonies on the agar plates. True False

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A water sample was taken from the Waikato River and returned to
the laboratory to analyse water quality parameters. If the agar
plate CFU number counting method is used, we can only expect
0.1 - 10% of the containing microbial species can form colonies
on the agar plates.
True
False
Transcribed Image Text:A water sample was taken from the Waikato River and returned to the laboratory to analyse water quality parameters. If the agar plate CFU number counting method is used, we can only expect 0.1 - 10% of the containing microbial species can form colonies on the agar plates. True False
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