This is the result of Escherichia coli after a week of incubation and being placed at room temperature for ten minutes prior to being incubated. This was expected to show the most amount of growth because pathogens will grow faster at 37°C, the temperature of the human body. This is evident by the constant lines of colonies of the plate. Incubation temperature is 37C, which is optimum temperature for its growth. Mesophiles, like Escherichia coli, are bacteria that thrive at this temperature because it is able to grow and divide very rapidly. The plate is not countable because there are over 300
