The phase of the bacterial growth curve in which newly inoculated cells are adjusting to their new environment, metabolizing but not growing at an exponential rate, is the ________.
A. stationary phase
B. lag phase
C. exponential phase
D. prophase
E. death phase
Answer: B
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