GATE XL · 2020 · XL-S
Question 18: Microbial Growth
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Question 18
XL-SNAT2 marksNeeds review
A bacterial culture has a generation time of 34 minutes. The time taken (in minutes, rounded off to two decimal places) for the OD₅₀ of this exponentially growing culture to increase from 0.25 to 0.85 is _____.
Assume that OD₅₀ has a linear relationship with the cell density.
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2020XL-S
GATE XL 2020 · Paper 1
Life Sciences · Original paper archive
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- Section XL-S
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 2 marks
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