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    Bacterial populations grow through cell division and multiplication. Growth is influenced by various environmental factors like nutrients, temperature, pH, and oxygen levels. Bacterial cells double through binary fission during their logarithmic growth phase, leading to exponential population increases. A standard bacterial growth curve consists of lag, logarithmic, stationary, and death phases as the population expands rapidly then levels off due to limiting resources.

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    Bacterial populations grow through cell division and multiplication. Growth is influenced by various environmental factors like nutrients, temperature, pH, and oxygen levels. Bacterial cells double through binary fission during their logarithmic growth phase, leading to exponential population increases. A standard bacterial growth curve consists of lag, logarithmic, stationary, and death phases as the population expands rapidly then levels off due to limiting resources.

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    Lecture 7 - Bacterial Population

    Growth

    Growth of Microbes
    Increase in
    number of cells,
    not cell size
    One cell
    becomes
    colony of
    millions of cells

    Growth of Microbes
    Control of growth is important for
    infection control
    growth of industrial and biotech
    organisms

    Factors Regulating Growth


    Nutrients
    Environmental
    conditions:
    temperature,
    pH, osmotic
    pressure
    Generation time

    Nutritional Categories
    Carbon sources
    CO2
    =
    organic =
    Energy sources
    sunlight =
    organic
    =

    autotroph
    heterotroph

    photoautotroph
    heterotroph

    Environmental Factors
    Influencing Growth

    Temperature
    O2
    pH
    Osmotic Pressure
    Others: radiation, atmospheric
    pressure

    Generation Time
    Time required for cell to divide/for
    population to double
    Average for bacteria is 1-3 hours
    E. coli generation time = 20 min
    20 generations (7 hours), 1 cell
    becomes 1 million cells!

    Population Growth of Bacteria

    Bacterial Division
    Bacteria divide by binary fission

    Fig. 7.13

    Fig. 7.14a

    Plotting growth on graphs

    Standard Growth Curve

    Phases of Growth
    Lag phase making new enzymes
    in response to new medium
    Log phase exponential growth
    Desired for production of
    products

    Phases of Growth
    Stationary phase
    nutrients becoming limiting or
    waste products becoming toxic
    death rate = division rate
    Death phase death exceeds
    division

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