The decision to voluntarily stop eating and drinking at the end of life is a choice a patient makes with the intent to hasten the dying process. No. This is a choice made by patients who are already at the end of their life. A dying person will naturally lose interest in food and fluids and progressively become weaker.
D. Death phase is the period in which the cells are dying at an exponential rate. E. The mathematics of growth-microbial growth can be described by certain mathematical terms: 1. Mean generation (doubling) time is the time required for the population to double. 2.
This is the end of the preview. Sign up to access the rest of the document. Unformatted text preview: â¢ In a batch culture, various phases: â Lag â Exponential â Stationary â Death Phase â¢ Lag : When microbes are initially introduced into a new medium, the period of time when they adjust to the new environment. Not a dormant period, they are actively synthesizing enzymes for the next phase.