If you estimate that an overnight culture has 5.28x10^7 viable colonies per mL, how would you confirm...

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Ifyou estimate that an overnight culture has 5.28x10^7 viablecolonies per mL, how would you confirm this? Please draw ALLdilutions and write what dilution each tube and plate representsand how many bacteria you expect per mL in each tube. Write downhow many bacteria will be on the final plate. Making sure that thenumber falls within the expected range for accurate counts.

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We can estimate the number of cellsColony forming units byserial dlutions and platingThe initial estimate is 528 107 colonies we will consider the colonies mentioned here asindividual cellsThis means    See Answer
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