If a certain kind of bacteria reproduces by binary fission and a bacterium takes 20 minutes to divide, how long would it take for 1 bacterium to produce 500,000 bacteria through binary fission?

Each bacterium can undergo binary fission every 20 minutes. After 5 hours, a single bacterium can produce a population of 32,768 descendants. Are you surprised?

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