How do you know if you have a ‘countable’ plate when doing a dilution series?   Two plates received 0.1 mL of the same dilution tube. The first has 293 colonies and the second has 158 colonies. Suggest a reasonable reason why this happened.

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How do you know if you have a ‘countable’ plate when doing a dilution series?

 

Two plates received 0.1 mL of the same dilution tube. The first has 293 colonies and the second has 158 colonies. Suggest a reasonable reason why this happened.

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