Practice - Generation Time (g) or Doubling Time
Practice Questions
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What does generation time refer to?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens during bacterial replication.
What is the formula for calculating generation time?
💡 Hint: Recall the components involved in growth calculations.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the term generation time (g) refer to?
💡 Hint: Consider the doubling process of cells.
True or False: Specific growth rate (µ) is directly proportional to generation time.
💡 Hint: Reflect on how growth rates work.
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Challenge Problems
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During a study, a biologist tracks a bacterial culture that starts with 2,500 cells. They find it grows to 80,000 cells in 4 hours. Calculate the generation time and specific growth rate.
💡 Hint: Break the problem into steps, calculating n first.
If a pathogenic bacterium has a generation time of 20 minutes and is found in an infected person at a count of 1,000 cells, how many cells would be present after 2 hours?
💡 Hint: Calculate the total doubling periods in the timeframe given.
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