Sally Monella found 344 bacterial colonies on one of her plates. She had prepared this plate after a serial dilution of a culture of Yersinia pestis. She had pipetted 1 ml sample of diluted Yersinia pestis from a tube with the overall dilution factor of 10^6 into a plate and covered it with agar. She used this plate to calculate the concentration in cells/ml of a bacterial culture. a) How many organisms were in the original culture? b) Were her results valid? Why or why not?
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