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Factors Affecting Microorganism Growth

The document discusses factors that affect microbial growth and an experiment on the effect of pH on bacterial growth. The experiment used petri dishes with nutrient agar adjusted to pH 2, 7, and 13 that were inoculated with bacteria. After two days, the number of bacterial colonies was highest at pH 7 and lowest at pH 2 and 13, showing that bacteria grow best in neutral conditions. The aim was to study the effect of pH on bacterial growth, the hypothesis was that growth would be highest at pH 7, and the manipulated variable was pH value.

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Factors Affecting Microorganism Growth

The document discusses factors that affect microbial growth and an experiment on the effect of pH on bacterial growth. The experiment used petri dishes with nutrient agar adjusted to pH 2, 7, and 13 that were inoculated with bacteria. After two days, the number of bacterial colonies was highest at pH 7 and lowest at pH 2 and 13, showing that bacteria grow best in neutral conditions. The aim was to study the effect of pH on bacterial growth, the hypothesis was that growth would be highest at pH 7, and the manipulated variable was pH value.

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.% Chapter 1 Exercise 2 Learning Area: Microorganisms and Their Effects on Living Things Learning Objective: Synthesising ideas about the factors that affect the growth of microorganisms. 1. The growth of microorganisms is very much affected by environmental factors such as (a) ____________________ (d) ____________________ Clue : P A U T E R E M R T E A M I Y U T I D H G I H L T H p (b) _________________ (e) _________________ (c) __________________

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Diagram 1 shows an experiment to study the effect of pH value of medium on bacterial growth.

Petri dish P Nutrient agar + Hydrochloric acid (pH 2) + Bacteria culture

Petri dish Q Nutrient agar + Distilled water (pH 7) + Bacteria culture

Petri dish R Nutrient agar + Sodium hydroxide (pH 13) + Bacteria culture

Diagram 1 After two days, the number of bacteria colony in each dish is counted. The results are shown in Table 1. pH value 2 7 13 Table 1 Number of bacteria colony 0 26 0

Based on Diagram 1 and Table 1, match Section A to Section B. Section A (i) Aim of the experiment (ii) Hypothesis (iii) Fixed variable (iv) Manipulated variable (v) Responding variable (vi) Alkaline (vii) In neutral condition Section B (a) pH more than 7. (b)To study the effect of pH on the growth of bacteria growth of microorganisms (c)Microorganisms grow and multiply rapidly (d) Bacteria growth is highest at pH 7 (e)Type of nutrients (f)The growth of bacteria (g) pH value

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