Let's assume you start with one bacterium:
Step by step this gives you:
½ hour: 2
1 hour: 4
1½ hours: 8
2 hours: 16
2½ hours: 32
3 hours: 64
3½ hours: 128
4 hours: 256
You will notice that the number doubles each hour. So you can just apply the formula: bacteria = 2t, where t is the number of time periods. In this case we have 8 half-hours, so that's 28, or 256.
A bacteria splits in half after 20 minutes, so that after 20 minutes there are 2 bacteria, and after 40 minutes there are 4 bacteria. How many bacteria will there be after 2 hours?
You will have 16,777,216 bacteria after 24 hours if it reproduces once.
there are more than 10,000 bacterium in 5 hours
2,097,152
After six hours, and assuming they all survive dividing, you would have 232144
The bacterium undergoes binary fission, where it duplicates its genetic material and divides into two daughter cells. This process repeats every 30 minutes, resulting in exponential growth. After 10 cycles (5 hours), one bacterium will have produced 1000 bacteria.
It depends on the species of bacteria as some divide more rapidly than others.
Yes, under ideal conditions, some bacteria can reproduce every 20 minutes to two hours. This rapid rate of reproduction is called binary fission, where a single bacterial cell divides into two cells.
There were 20000*(1+340/100) = 20000*4.4 = 88000
After 4 hours, as the bacterium doubles every 30 minutes, resulting in 8 divisions within this time frame. Starting with 1 bacterium, this will lead to 28 = 256 bacteria after 4 hours.
After 24 hours, the single bacterium would have undergone 48 divisions (24 hours x 60 minutes/hour รท 30 minutes/division). Therefore, the single colony would contain 2^48 bacteria, which is 281,474,976,710,656 bacteria.
A bacteria splits in half after 20 minutes, so that after 20 minutes there are 2 bacteria, and after 40 minutes there are 4 bacteria. How many bacteria will there be after 2 hours?
You will have 16,777,216 bacteria after 24 hours if it reproduces once.
486
If B(t) represents the number of bacteria after t hours, then B(t) = 43.9157*(1.7533)t for t >= 0.
24 hours
there are more than 10,000 bacterium in 5 hours