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  2. Bacterial growth - Wikipedia

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    Bacterial growth. Growth is shown as L = log (numbers) where numbers is the number of colony forming units per ml, versus T (time.) Bacterial growth is proliferation of bacterium into two daughter cells, in a process called binary fission. Providing no mutation event occurs, the resulting daughter cells are genetically identical to the original ...

  3. Growth curve (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Growth curve (biology) Figure 1: A bi-phasic bacterial growth curve. A growth curve is an empirical model of the evolution of a quantity over time. Growth curves are widely used in biology for quantities such as population size or biomass (in population ecology and demography, for population growth analysis), individual body height or biomass ...

  4. Diauxic growth - Wikipedia

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    Diauxic growth, meaning double growth, is caused by the presence of two sugars on a culture growth media, one of which is easier for the target bacterium to metabolize. The preferred sugar is consumed first, which leads to rapid growth, followed by a lag phase. [1] During the lag phase the cellular machinery used to metabolize the second sugar ...

  5. Monod equation - Wikipedia

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    Monod equation. The Monod equation is a mathematical model for the growth of microorganisms. It is named for Jacques Monod (1910–1976, a French biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965), who proposed using an equation of this form to relate microbial growth rates in an aqueous environment to the concentration of a limiting ...

  6. Biological exponential growth - Wikipedia

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    bacteria. Biological exponential growth is the unrestricted growth of a population of organisms, occurring when resources in its habitat are unlimited. Most commonly apparent in species that reproduce quickly and asexually, like bacteria, exponential growth is intuitive from the fact that each organism can divide and produce two copies of itself.

  7. Semi-log plot - Wikipedia

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    The linear–log type of a semi-log graph, defined by a logarithmic scale on the x axis, and a linear scale on the y axis. Plotted lines are: y = 10 x (red), y = x (green), y = log (x) (blue). In science and engineering, a semi-log plot / graph or semi-logarithmic plot / graph has one axis on a logarithmic scale, the other on a linear scale.

  8. Logarithmic growth - Wikipedia

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    Logarithmic growth is the inverse of exponential growth and is very slow. [2] A familiar example of logarithmic growth is a number, N, in positional notation, which grows as log b (N), where b is the base of the number system used, e.g. 10 for decimal arithmetic. [3] In more advanced mathematics, the partial sums of the harmonic series

  9. Bacterial cell structure - Wikipedia

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    In most bacteria the most numerous intracellular structure is the ribosome, the site of protein synthesis in all living organisms. All prokaryotes have 70S (where S= Svedberg units) ribosomes while eukaryotes contain larger 80S ribosomes in their cytosol. The 70S ribosome is made up of a 50S and 30S subunits.