How many generations does it take for a single bacterial cell to become 256 bacterial cells? (hint, don't forget to count the fi

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Arada [10]

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How many generations does it take for a single bacterial cell to become 256 bacterial cells? (hint, don't forget to count the fi

rst cell)?

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Tpy6a [65] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-25T13:20:38+03:00

Bacteria is a unicellular organism which can multiply very fast by binary cell division.
To get a number of divisions required for cell division: you can use the formula: 2 $x^{number of generations}$ = number of bacteria
To get 256 bacteria:
2 $x^{n}$ = 256 (you can solve this equation by a calculator)
so: n = 8 generations

With this formula the first bacteria is taken into consideration since 1 bacteria gives two, then the two give four, then eight, 16...