Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a pathogenic bacterium that infects lungs and othe

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a pathogenic bacterium that infects lungs and other organs to cause tuberculosis, a common and often deadly disease. M. tuberculosis has an average generation time of 28 hours/generation. Calculate how long it would take to produce 106 M. tuberculosis cells from one lonely original bacteria under these conditions. Show all calculations, always include units, do not round off any numbers during your calculations. Provide your final answer in days and hours, with a precision of 1 hour. e.g. 4.16 days (no), 100 hrs (no), 4 days and 4 hrs (yes).

Explanation / Answer

g = (log10 Nt - log10 N0) / log102

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