Fermentation Reactors - Medical Science

Q1:

A strain of Escherichia coli has a maximum specific growth rate of 0.8 h-1 on a glucose based medium. If this organism is being grown in a chemostat with a dilution rate of 1.2 h-1, then at steady state the concentration of E. coli in the same medium will

A increase

B be zero

C change randomly

D decrease

ANS:B - be zero

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