In the phage titer experiment, why did you plate multiple dilutions?   a. so that you should have a countable plate b. to have duplicates to count c. As a control d. to be certain the E. coli was not previously infected

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In the phage titer experiment, why did you plate multiple dilutions?

 
a. so that you should have a countable plate
b. to have duplicates to count
c. As a control
d. to be certain the E. coli was not previously infected
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