A Loopful of Bacteria Containing 1000 Bacterial Cells Is Inoculated

question 2

Multiple Choice

A loopful of bacteria containing 1000 bacterial cells is inoculated into a nutrient broth and incubated.The culture was in lag phase for 10 minutes and then went into exponential log phase growth for 5 hours.The generation time for the bacterium is 15 minutes.Which equation set up is the correct one to determine how many cells at the end of the 5 hours of log phase growth.

• A)1000 X 2²⁰
• B)1000 X 40
• C)1000 X 2⁴
• D)1000 X 5 X 2 X 15

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