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If it takes 2 hours for a population of bacteria to grow from 100 cells to 1600 cells, what is the generation time of this bacterial species? if it takes 2 hours for a population of bacteria to grow from 100 cells to 1600 cells, what is the generation time of this bacterial species? 30 minutes 20 minutes 40 minutes 15 minutes

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30 minutes
It takes 4 generations to go from 100 to 1600 bacteria. Therefore 2 hours (120 mins)/4 = 30
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