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.
The shortest time required to kill all the microbes in a sample at a specified temperature is called the: a. thermal death point (TDP) b thermal death time (TDT) c. sporicidal time d. death phase point e. b.