Just thinking off the top of my head. How about:
1 - set up a simple broth culture with a known amount of organism. Proof can
be made with a simple colony count of a measure amount spread on an agar
plate.
2 - incubate at the optimum temp (or even use different temps). and perform
colony counts at different intervals.
3 - plot the results and calculate the growth rate and the generation time.
The colony counts would have to be done on serial dilutions until you can
get a countable number of colonies.
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> From: gerchman at Princeton.EDU (Yoram Gerchman)
> Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre
> Newsgroups: bionet.microbiology
> Date: 28 Aug 2002 21:11:05 +0100
> Subject: acetobacter xylinum growth rate?
>> Greetings netters
> does anyone know of a simple way (to be used in a high school lab) to
> estimate growth rate of acetobacter xylinum?
> Thanks Yoram
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> Anonymous
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