Neco 2021 Biology Question 26
Practice objective / multiple choice question 26 from the 2021 Neco Biology examination.
An initially inoculated bacterial culture contains \(2 \times 10^{6}\) cells. After 3.0 h the culture contains \(1.6 \times 10^{9}\) cells. Assuming exponential growth with a constant generation time, (a) calculate the generation time in minutes, and (b) if the mutation rate conferring antibiotic resistance is \(2 \times 10^{-8}\) per cell division, estimate the expected number of resistant cells present after 3.0 h.
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This is Neco 2021 Biology Question 26. It is one of the objective questions from the 2021 Neco Biology examination.
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