You inoculated a culture with an initial cell count of 6.5x10^3 cells. The generation time for this organism is 25 minutes. You grew the culture for 10 hours. a) How many generations occurred? b) How many cells will be present after the 10 hours?

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You inoculated a culture with an initial cell count of 6.5x10^3 cells. The generation time for this organism is 25 minutes. You grew the culture for 10 hours.

a) How many generations occurred?
b) How many cells will be present after the 10 hours?

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