Question

1) Actinomycetes are responsible for the characteristics musty or earthy odor of a freshly

plowed field.
2) Direct microscopic count of soil sample as high as several billions per gram have been

reported; Plate counts from the same samples yield only a fraction of this number.​

Answer 1

Answer:

the odors freed from newly tilled soils arose from actinomycetes grow- ing there. Berthelot and Andre (4) ... responsible for earthy and unpleasant flavors in the water. They assumed that the actinomycetes were land .

Direct counting methods include microscopic counts using a hemocytometer or a counting chamber. The hemocytometer works by creating a volumetric grid divided into differently sized cubes for accurately counting the number of particles in a cube and calculating the concentration of the entire sample.

Explanation:

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