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A student was given 6 plates taken from the incubator from aserial dilution done two days earlier and told to get a standardplate count.  The student, not sure what to do, attemptedto count the colonies on all the plates, then add the counts fromall plates and get an average.  Was this the correctprocedure? Yes or No? Explain!

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No the procedure followed by the student is incorrect Standard plate count is a method for assessing the microbial population or load in the sample Bacteria divide so faster that    See Answer
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