When you walk into the lab your instructor hands you a

Last updated: 10/10/2023

When you walk into the lab your instructor hands you a cuvette that contains a sample of a bacterial culture and asks you to read the optical density OD of the sample in the spectrophotometer The reading you get is 0 85 Your instructor then informs you that in the past the OD reading for this bacterium during its stationary phase has ALWAYS been 1 3 Just by the 0 85 OD reading can you tell what growth phase the bacterium is in Explain why or why not 4 pts