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What is a colony forming unit and how is it used to infer microbial numbers in a sample?.

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What is a colony-forming unit and how is it used to infer microbial numbers in a sample? A colony-forming unit is the measurable number of colonies that are formed on the agar plate solution. In this experiment, each colony formed of S. cerevisiae will be a colony-forming