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if you start with a single bacterium, capable of dividing every 20 minutes, how many bacteria would you have after just 4 hours

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Answer:

4096

Explanation:

Multiple 1 (original bacterium) by 2, 12 times

1*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 = 4096

4096 bacteria would be present after 4 hours as they grow via binary division.

What is bacteria?

  • Bacteria is prokaryotic unicellular microorganism.
  • They are found in extreme harsh conditions.
  • Bacteria has hair like structure that helps in their locomotion.
  • Bacteria grow through binary division.

What do you mean by binary division?

  • It is a type of cell division in which one cell give rise to two identical daughter cells.

As it is given that bacteria divides at every 20 minutes mean 2 cells are formed from 1 cell. And after 40 min 8 (2∧n) bacterial cells are present.

After 4 hours i.e., 240 min= 240/20=12.

So 2∧12 = 4096 cells are present.

Hence, the answer is 4096 bacterial cells.

To know more about binary division here

https://brainly.com/question/11013499

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