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.
of microbial interaction with the environment is the production of progeny. Hence, the single practical criterion of death of microorganisms is the failure to reproduce in suitable environmental conditions.1 Physical and chemical agents affecting microbial activities to such an extent as to deprive microbial particles of the expected reproductive capacity can be regarded as lethal agents.