Question: Describe the cellular components of blood. What is the function of each of the different components? How do they function to maintain

1. Why isn't the Gram stain used on acid-fast bacteria? 2. Assume that after washing your hands, you leave ten bacteria cells on a new bar of soap. You then decide to do a plate count of the soap after it was left in the soap dish for 24 hours. You dilute 1g of the soap 1:106 and plate it on standard plate count agar. After 24 hours of incubation, there are 168 colonies. How many bacteria were on the soap? How did they get there?