Question

Considering two cultures of bacteria that are in the stationary phase and are going to be analyzed at the same time, but have been in the stationary phases for different lengths of time, can you determine which culture will have more viable cells based on what you know about the stationary phase and cell viability over time?

Answer 1

According to knowledge of stationam Phase - where growth rate and death rate are equal to cancel one other effect upto certain time i.e. untill nutrient became very low in amount in medium. Now if we think about time stationary phase due to growth limiting factor as the depletion of essential mufient, we should think about load at viable cello Novo of the viable cell is high at start of stationary bhase aft will consume essential mutrient quickin than medium with lower viale cell count at start of station an phase. Thus higher the viable cell count tower the time of stationam phase and nice rersaa Hence, Culture with shorter length of station on phane contain more niable cells.