Table of Contents

• Section 1. How to Do a Viable Plate Count
• 1: Why we need to dilute
• 2: Setting the stage: Diluting Cold Press Coffee
• 3: Working out the dilution
• 4: Overall dilution
• 5: Design a dilution!
• 6: How to scale back up
• 7: Count a plate!
• 8: Why plate more than one dilution?
• 9: Picking the plate to count
• Section 2. Practice Problems
• 10: Putting it all together
• 11: Quickies
• 12: Is the water safe?
• Section 3. Review
• 13: Summary

Put it all together!

Here is a chance for you to put all of the steps together, using viable plate count and serial dilution to quantify a bacterial population...