Re: Broadcast TV Fee. Pretty much everyone on cable tv pays the Broadcast TV fee, and it's not just particular to Comcast. Broadcast stations [your local stations] charge the cable companies fees to carry their programs. In turn, cable companies pass those fees along to the customers. All cable tiers carry the broadcast channels. So, basically, yes, you'll be paying that $5 Broadcast TV fee.
Growth factors are organized into three categories. Some bacteria (e.g. E. coli) do not require any growth factors: they can synthesize all essential purines, pyrimidines, amino acids and vitamins, starting with their carbon source, as part of their own intermediary metabolism.
Certain other bacteria (e.g. Lactobacillus) require purines, pyrimidines, vitamins and several amino acids in order to grow. These compounds must be added in advance to culture media that are used to grow these bacteria.he growth factors are not metabolized directly as sources of carbon or energy, rather they are assimilated by cells to fulfill their specific role in metabolism. Mutant strains of bacteria that require some growth factor not needed by the wild type (parent) strain are referred to as auxotrophs.