Method

• An LB culture of TOP10 cells was serially diluted and the OD600 reading was taken for each. (UV/Vis Spectrophotometer zeroed using LB.)
• Dilutions were plated out at 10^-5 and 10^-6 fold dilutions, and colonies were counted using a colony counter to determine the total number of cells in the original dilutions.

Results

Relative Cell Density	OD600 Reading	Colonies on x100,000 dilution
1	1.6483	745
0.8	1.4913
0.6	1.1058
0.4	1.0167	308
0.2	0.5885
0.1	0.2982
0.08	0.2567
0.06	0.1910
0.04	0.1208
0.02	0.070
0.01	0.0346