write an essay about the life stages of the bacterium, E. Coli. You can start the essay by including a picture of a growth curve (which can be interpreted as a life cycle).
What you want to include in your essay is the following:
1. description of what is happening at each stage
2. What is happening to the microbial population (increasing/ decreasing/ staying the same?
3. levels of nutrients for the microorganisms?
4. virulence/pathogencity levels? is the cell pathogenic at each stage? is there a stage where it is more pathogenic than another?
5. Which stage is the cell most vulnerable and which is it most resistant to attach and the reasons why you state that.
In this assignment you will be characterizing in your own words the bacterial cell growth curve as related to nutritional availability and survival.
Your summary should be a minimum of 2 pages. Please include answers to the following:
What are the phases of the bacterial growth curve and what are the biological processes occurring in the microbial cell?
What are the macro molecules/nutrients necessary for bacterial growth and address what their levels may during each phase?