Mathematics Life Science Applied Calculus Project Derivative Application on Bacterial Growth

by Dhara Patel

 

Submitted : Spring 2022

For the survival of any living species, it is importance for the species to have a sufficient rate of growth. This growth relies on a balance of death that may occur to predation, parasitism, or any sort of natural disasters/causes. Natural microbes for instance rely on environmental factors of all kinds to have a sufficient rate of growth. Such examples include the reliance of pH, osmotic pressure, and nutrient quality and quantity.  Microbial growth is quite impossible to measure since the process in which simulating the same physiochemical conditions a natural environment provides is difficult to attain. This is since in nature an organism faces many survival difficulties such as competition from other organisms which is hard to duplicate in a laboratory. Microbial growth rates can be measured in many ways where it allows for a measurement and evaluation of how successful growth is and how microbial cultures survive certain optimal conditions whether it be in a laboratory or in nature.

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