3. (a) Comparing the culture-dependant (e.g., colony forming units count) and DNA- based (e.g., PCR) bacterial number quantification methods, what are the primary disadvantages of using culture-dependent methods to quantify bacterial numbers in an environmental sample? Use no more than three sentences or bullet points to present your answer succinctly.

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3. (a) Comparing the culture-dependant (e.g., colony forming units count) and DNA-
based (e.g., PCR) bacterial number quantification methods, what are the primary
disadvantages of using culture-dependent methods to quantify bacterial numbers in an
environmental sample? Use no more than three sentences or bullet points to present
your answer succinctly.
Transcribed Image Text:3. (a) Comparing the culture-dependant (e.g., colony forming units count) and DNA- based (e.g., PCR) bacterial number quantification methods, what are the primary disadvantages of using culture-dependent methods to quantify bacterial numbers in an environmental sample? Use no more than three sentences or bullet points to present your answer succinctly.
(b) At a local wastewater treatment plant receiving municipal wastewater, the
secondary treatment units have been performing severely under the designed
benchmarks, resulting in poor effluent quality. You, a wastewater treatment engineer,
suspected that the wastewater treatment microbes in the units might be inhibited.
What factors do you want to check to find out potential causalities of the inhibition?
List the most common four factors that you want to start your investigation with.
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Transcribed Image Text:(b) At a local wastewater treatment plant receiving municipal wastewater, the secondary treatment units have been performing severely under the designed benchmarks, resulting in poor effluent quality. You, a wastewater treatment engineer, suspected that the wastewater treatment microbes in the units might be inhibited. What factors do you want to check to find out potential causalities of the inhibition? List the most common four factors that you want to start your investigation with. e (ii) (iii)_ (iv).
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