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In the first part of the experiment Dr. Ambela wants to identify what is the shortest time she has to wait after the transfection in order to have significant increase in PDX activity. To do so Dr Ambela sets up eight dishes with transfected C19 cells, and collects aliquots of the supernatant at the time points indicated below and carries out the enzyme assay and obtains the results indicated in the table below.

time exposure (min) 0 10 20 30 40 50 0.234 0.204 0.174 0.334 0.384 0.394 0.245 0.295 0.345 0.295 0.365 0.355 0.244 0.214 0.184 0.344 0.394 0.404 Enzyme 0.359 0.409 0.459 0.409 0.479 0.469 Activity 0.274 0.244 0.214 0.374 0.424 0.434 (Absorbance 0.285 0.335 0.385 0.335 0.405 0.395 0.284 0.254 0.224 0.384 0.434 0.444 0.399 0.449 0.499 0.449 0.519 0.509

Dr Ambela next treats transfected cells with Toxin A. Dr Ambela chooses to add the toxin 40 min after transfection and counts transfected and non-transfected cells after 24 hours with or without Toxin A control cells control cells + transfected cells transfected cells+ (x10^6) toxin A (x10^6) (x10^6) toxin A (x10^6) 2.56 1.54 2.63 1.58 2.89 2.02 2.92 2.10 3.01 1.87 3.08 1.82 3.20 2.27 3.23 2.33 2.88 1.73 2.95 1.77 2.77 1.94 2.80 2.02 2.97 1.84 3.04 1.79 2.88 2.04 2.91 2.10 Answer the following questions