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What is used to measure microbial growth |
Optical density Dry cell weight Wet cell weight Packed cell volumes |
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What is a closed system |
All nutrient (expect gas) available in the medium at the start |
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What are the phases of growth |
Lag Log Deceleration Stationary Death |
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What is doubling time |
Is the time taken for a cell to go through one round of replication and produce two identical cells |
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What is the chemostat fed by |
Fed with fresh medium from the reservoir at a known flow rate |
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What does a change in biomass mean |
Growth - output |
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What is a chemostat used for |
Growth rate and biomass conc to be varied with no environmental change and other growth limiting substrate |
