Recent questions tagged microbial-growth

A microbial culture is being grown in a bioreactor with continuous aeration. The dissolved oxygen probe provided with the system shows a reading of zero. In this context,...

A batch sterilizer is being operated at $121^{\circ} \mathrm{C}$ for sterilizing a medium containing microbial cells. Assume that the thermal deactivation of cells is a f...

A microbe that follows Monod growth kinetics on a limiting substrate (maximum specific growth rate of $0.5 \mathrm{~h}^{-1}$ and Monod constant of $0.1 ~\mathrm{mg} \math...

Which of the following factors can affect the growth of a microbial culture in a batch cultivation process?$\mathrm{pH}$ of the medium Osmolarity of the mediumSubstrate c...

Match the type of bacteria in Group I with their respective growth properties in Group II.Group IGroup IIP. Halophile1. Grows optimally between $20^{\circ} \mathrm{C}$ an...

A bacterial strain is grown in nutrient medium at $37^{\circ}\text{C}$ under aerobic conditions. The medium is inoculated with $10^{2}$ cells from a seed culture. If the ...

Which one of the following is $\text{CORRECT}$ about microbial growth medium?Luria-Bertani broth is a synthetic mediumNutrient broth is a defined mediumSabouraud dextrose...

The specific growth rate of a mold during exponential phase of its growth in a batch cultivation is $0.15 \: h^{-1}$. If the cell concentration at $30 \: h$ is $33\: g L^...

Which of the following factors can influence the lag phase of a microbial culture in a batch fermentor?Inoculum sizeInoculum ageMedium composition$P$ and $Q$ only$Q$ and ...

Which of the following events occur during the stationary phase of bacterial growth?Rise in cell number stopsSpore formation in some Gram-positive bacteria such as Bacill...

For an $\textit{E.coli}$ culture in the exponential phase of growth, optical density (OD) at $540$ nm is $0.3$ at $2$ hours and $0.6$ at $4$ hours. Assuming that the meas...

Growth of a microbe in a test tube is modeled as $\dfrac{dX}{dt} = rX \bigg (1 – \dfrac{X}{K}\bigg )$, where, $X$ is the biomass, $r$ is the growth rate, and $K$ is the c...

Samples of bacterial culture taken at $5$ PM and then the next day at $5$ AM were found to have $10^4$ and $10^7$ cells.mL${-1}$, respectively. Assuming that both the sam...

The most plausible explanation for a sudden increase of the respiratory quotient $(RQ)$ of a microbial culture is thatcells are dyingyield of biomass is increasingthe fer...

Consider a continuous culture provided with a sterile feed containing $10$ mM glucose. The steady state cell density and substrate concentration at three different diluti...