When performing a standard plate count, plates that contain 30 - 300 Bacterialcolonies are selected for counting with the Quebec colony counter.
The countable plate has between 30 and 300 colonies. More than 300 Bacterialcolonies would be difficult to count, and less than 30 Bacterialcolonies is too small a sample size to present an accurate representation of the original sample.
The Bacterialcolonies is isolated with a colony-picking tool such as a toothpick, inoculation loop, or pipette tip. It is then inoculated in a solid or liquid cell culture medium where it is incubated overnight to encourage replication. The general formula to calculate CFU/ml is well known: The number of microbes/ml = number of Bacterialcolonies x dilution of the sample. Between 0.3 ml and 0.5 ml of a suspension of indicator bacteria is required for each plate.
<h2>Previously understood similarities that seemed to connect slime molds and fungi are now considered to be examples of convergent evolution</h2>
Explanation:
Convergent evolution is an evolutionary process where unrelated monophyletic organisms independently develop or evolve similar characteristic traits due to the need to adapting to similar conditions or ecological or environmental necessity.
The slime molds are subsets or part of amoebozoans but have certain morphological features similar to that of fungi, this type of evolutionary behavior is called convergent evolution.
Under stressful conditions, slime molds produce and develop spore-generating fruity bodies like fungi, which is a convergent evolutionary change.
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