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1. You are given a 1 gram soil sample of unknown bacterial load. After doing 10-fold serial dilutions of the soil in sterile water, 100 uL volumes are taken from each dilution for preparation of pour plates. Following incubation, each half of the 10-8 plate has 46 colonies. a) What was the dilution factor?
b) How many bacteria were present in the soil?

2. Staphylococcus aureus divides every 20 minutes. A culture begins with 10 bacterial cells.
a) After 5 hours, how many generations have occurred
b) After 5 hours, how many bacteria are present?

3. How many milliliters would you need to prepare a 10-2 dilution from a 10ml starting culture?

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