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.
Vegetative phase is unicellular, without a cell wall, a multinucleate mass of protoplasm called a plasmodium. 1  They engulf bacteria, protozoa, and other food particles by phagocytosis.During this mode of ingestion, the food particles, usually bacteria, beceome surrounded by the pseudopodia of the myxamoeba.