The Growth Rate of the Bacterium, a Common Bacterium Found

Multiple Choice

The growth rate of the bacterium, a common bacterium found in the human intestine, is proportional to its size. Under ideal laboratory conditions, when this bacterium is grown in a nutrient broth medium, the number of cells in a culture doubles approximately every 20 min. If the initial cell population is 100, determine the function Q(t) that expresses the exponential growth of the number of cells of this bacterium as a function of time t (in minutes) . How long will it take for a colony of 100 cells to increase to a population of 1 million? If the initial cell population were 1,000, how would this alter the model?

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