A Microbiologist Inoculates a Growth Medium with 100 Bacterial Cells/ml

question 4

Multiple Choice

A microbiologist inoculates a growth medium with 100 bacterial cells/ml. If the generation time of the species is 1 hour, and there is no lag phase, how long will it be before the culture contains more than 10,000 cells/ml?

• A) 24 hours
• B) 10 hours
• C) 7 hours
• D) 3 hours
• E) 2 hours

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