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What factors do you believe contribute to high occupancy rates? Why does the United States have a much higher incarceration rate than most other countries? Finally, in your opinion,  what can be done to decrease the prison population? 

Age has historically been used to determine culpability. Do you think this is the best method?  Why? In your view, what is the best method for the prevention for juvenile delinquency? 

If you were told to make a 10(-1) dilution of the entire culture of a 2.0 mL test tube of E. coli broth culture, how many mL would you add to this tube?

The results of an Enterotube II test directly indicate aspects of the microbes’ ______

If you were told to make a 10(-2) dilution of the entire culture of a 2.0 mL container of E. coli broth culture, how many mL would you add to this container?

Examine the below picture, and choose the most accurate answer choice based on the picture (make sure it’s grammatically correct, too).      

Most of the results of Enterotube II can be interpreted by _____

When examining the results of a Triple Sugar Iron agar test, why would there be a big air space in the bottom of a tube?    

An antimicrobial that kills bacteria is said to be _____

In the bacterial transformation lab, what is the purpose of having an antibiotic resistance gene on the plasmid along with the gene of interest?  The antibiotic resistance gene will _______