Microbial Growth Lab

Part 1: Growth Curve Simulator

Speed

Living cells All cells, living and dead (what cloudiness shows) Antibiotic added Living cell Dead cell Nutrients

1. Organism

2. Temperature 37 °C

3. Oxygen

4. pH 7.0

5. Starting nutrients

6. Antibiotic

Kills cells that are building new cell wall, so it works on growing cells. Add it at any time while the culture runs.

Simulator readouts
Measure	Value

Challenges

A teaching model with rounded values. The organisms are simplified stand-ins, not exact species data.