Colony Forming Unit

MCQ's
1. What is a colony in microbiology?

a. A group of bacteria that grew from one original bacterium

b. Several different species of bacteria being teste

c. A name for a bacteriology lab

d. A group of E. coli being studied

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2. What information does a colony-forming unit provide?

a. Total number of bacteria strains in a culture.

b. How many viable bacteria on the agar were able to grow into colonies.

c. The total number of bacteria are in a culture.

d. How many bacteria make proteins.

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3. Method used to count CFU??

a. petri dish method

b. dilution method

c. drop plate method

d. plate counting method

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4. CFU stand's for ???
a. Carbon forming unit
b. Colony forming unit
c. Cell forming unit
d. Count founding unit
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5. What does viable bacteria means???
a. Bacteria which grows faster
b. Bacteria which produces toxins
c. Dead bacteria
 d. Bacteria which is alive but unculturable
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6. what is the significant range of colonies on a plate???
a. 30 to 60 colonies
b. 200 to 300 colonies
c. 50 to100 colonies
d. 30 to 300 colonies
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7. What is TFTC ??
a. Too far to call
b. Too few to count
c. To final the count
d. To fix the count
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Last modified: 30 Jun 2019