In the viable plate count method, a measured volume of a culture is evenly spread across an agar surface and incubated.  Each ________ represents one ________ from the original sample.

A. colony; cell
B. species; colony
C. cell; cell
D. cell; colony
E. generation; cell


Answer: A

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