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R Fascians Experiment
In the first experiment, the bacteria R. fascians and R. corynebacterioides grew equally well in all conditions of light, except ultraviolet light. We tested this by comparing the petri dishes to the petri dishes that grew without light. Here, the exposure time was constant for all the lights and no light, which is 48 hours. The light sources were different. However, none of the lights had an effect on the bacteria, for the bacteria just continued to grow normally. The only exception was that UV light killed both bacteria completely. In the second experiment, we decided to take the bacteria and expose it to UV light for shorter durations, starting from 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and so on until 24 hours. For 5 minutes, R. fascians had an average

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