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.
During batch culture, a typical bacterial growth curve shows five distinct phases of growth: lag phase, the delay before the start of exponential growth; exponential phase, where cell division proceeds at a constant rate; stationary phase, when conditions become unfavorable for growth and bacteria stop replicating (8, 70, 78); death phase, when cells lose viability; and, finally, long-term stationary phase, which can extend for years .