Batch Culture

Mom did this thing where you have to reach to the closest book, turn to page 123, find the 5th sentence and post the next three. Well my closest book was Microbiology. Yay! Not!! well, here it is.


Because no fresh medium is provided during incubation, nutrient concentrations decline and concentrations of wastes increase. the growth of the microorganism reproducing by binary fission can be plotted as a the logarithm of the number of viable cells versus the incubation time. the resulting curve has four distinct phrases.