A Microbiologist Inoculates a Growth Medium with 1,000 Bacterial Cells/ml

question 40

Multiple Choice

A microbiologist inoculates a growth medium with 1,000 bacterial cells/ml. If the generation time of the species is 30 minutes, how long will it be before the culture contains more than 10,000 cells/ml?

• A) 3 hours
• B) 1 hour
• C) 5 hours
• D) 3.5 hours
• E) 2 hours