Question

Which method used to determine numbers of bacteria in a sample involves the preparation of a series of dilutions of the sample in sterile water, adding measured volumes of each dilution to melted nutrient agar plates, making pour plates, incubating, counting colonies, and multiplying colony counts by dilution factors to determine the number of bacteria in the sample

Answer 1

Answer:To obtain a readily counted and statistically accurate number of bacteria. When performing a standard plate count using the pour plate method, the dilutions are first made, and then measured aliquots of each dilution are cultured.

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