At 4:00 p.m. a closed flask is inoculated with 1,000 cells. The lag phase lasts 1 hour. At 9:00 p.m. the culture enters stationary phase with a population of 65 million cells. The number of generations that have occurred is

a. 15.
b. 16.
c. 17.
d. 18.


Ans: b. 16.

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