Micro lab final

Advantages- only counts living cells

Disadvantages-Takes time and Growth medium is needed

Microscopy-count cells

Quantitive PCR- number of genomes

Spectrophotometer-optical density

Standard plate count-number of colonies

Detects contamination

indicates population density

<p>colony forming units- measure of viable colonogenic cell original cell density - number of samples in a cell</p> Signup and view all the answers