BACTERIAL GROWTH CURVE MEANING OF GROWTH: GROWTH means as we all know INCREASE. SO, hear we speak about GROWTH OF BACTERIA but in DIFFERENT STAGES. GROWTH is the orderly increase in the sum of all the components of an organism. The increase in size that results when a cell takes up water or deposits lipid(fats) or polysaccharide is not true growth. CELL MULTIPLICATION is a consequence of cell division of unicellular organisms, growth leads to an increase in the number of single bacteria making up a population, referred to as a culture. Measurement of microbial concentrations: These concentrations can be measured in terms of cell concentration(the number of viable cells per unit volume of culture) or of biomass concentration (dry weight of cells per unit volume of culture). CELL CONCENTRATION: The viable cell count is considered the measure of cell concentration. The Turbidity of cell concentration, measured by photoelectric means , ...