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PLEASE HELP ASAP!! Imagine that you once again have a species of bacteria that asexually divides, but this time it divides once a minute. So if you start with one bacterium at time 0, then after 1 minute you have 2 bacteria; after 2 minutes you have 4, etc. Imagine that you place one of these bacteria into a bottle at 11:00 p.m. and that at midnight (one hour later) that bottle is completely full.

1. At what time will the bottle be exactly half-full? How did you figure this out?

2. At what time might an intelligent, environmentally conscious bacterium in this bottle realize that its species was running out of space? Why?

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Answer: off

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