ENH 733 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anaerobic Organism, Clostridium, Thermal Death Time
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This part of the growth model assumes the doubling of cell numbers in a specific time starting with one cell (in theory), this would look like: Taking the logarithm of the first 10 generations: In microbiology because of the relatively high numbers of microorganisms present cell counts are generally presented in the exponential format. i. e. , 100 is written as 1 x 102. This format, log10 log2, can also be used (less often). Thus after n generations the cell numbers will equal 2 n n0 where n0 is the initial number of cells from this we can create a formula to calculate the generation time. The generation time (g) is defined as the time taken for the population of cells to double i. e. , the time for one cell to divide into two. We already know that after n generations the cell numbers equal 2nn0. We designate this value as nt the cell number after n generations.