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?

Explain how sequences of amino acids in proteins can be used to reveal relationships among organisms.

What happens when a plant is losing too much water through transpiration? question 14 options: stomata open stomata close guard cells swell respiration increases

Imagine a person stepping on a pin and pulling his or her foot away. look at the reflex arc of this scenario below. which statement best describes the image? a)the sensory nerve carries the signal from the effector to the interneuron, and the motor neuron carries the signal to the receptor. b)the motor nerve carries the signal from the receptor to the interneuron, and the sensory neuron carries the signal to the effector. c)the sensory nerve carries the signal from the receptor to the interneuron, and the motor neuron carries the signal to the effector. d)the sensory nerve carries the signal from the receptor to the motor neuron, and the interneuron carries the signal to the effector.