Your boss gives you 3 cultures all inoculated with the SAME

Your boss gives you 3 cultures all inoculated with the SAME bacterium that she isolated from the environment. She wants to know if this bacterium would be classified as an acidophil, neutrophile or alkalophile. She inoculated the following broths as listed below (all with the SAME bacterium) and counted the number of bacteria in the tubes at the given times. Please determine the generation times for this bacterium in each of the tubes in MINUTES and determine how you would classify this bacterium. it will be an acidophil, neutrophile or alkalophile it cannot be more than one!

Solution

Generation times:

for 1st=>8am-6pm=>10 shours=10*60=600 minutes

for 2nd-=>10pm=6am=>14hours=14*60=840 minutes

for 3rd=>6pm-6am=>12 hours=12*60=720 minutes

Tube ph=3=>Acidophilic organisms are those that thrive under highly acidic conditions

Tube ph=7=>Neutrophiles which are basically the organisms that thrive in neutral (pH 7) environments

Tube ph=11=>Alkaliphiles which thrive in alkaline environments usually.