A scientist added bacteria to a sterile petri dish with a growth medium called agar. No other materials were added. The graph shows the growth of bacteria over time.
Bacteria Population
Time
Which of these most likely explains why the bacteria population stopped growing?
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The bacteria came in contact with a virus that killed off the population.
The bacteria could not produce any longer because the population was too large.
The bacteria competed for nutrients and died after all of the nutrients were consumed.
The bacteria evolved into another organism.