If You Count 73 Plaques on a Bacterial Plate When

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Short Answer

If you count 73 plaques on a bacterial plate when you had added 0.1 ml of a 10⁻⁴ dilution of phage,what was the initial concentration of the (undiluted)phage?

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Definitions:

Temperature

A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a system, indicating how hot or cold the system is.

Latitude

Latitude refers to a geographic coordinate that specifies the north-south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

Biological Magnification

The process by which the concentration of toxic substances increases in organisms at each successive level of the food chain.

Saprotroph

Organisms that obtain nutrients by consuming decomposing organic matter, playing a crucial role in the ecosystem's nutrient cycle.