You are working with a particular strain of fast-growing Esc…
You are working with a particular strain of fast-growing Escherichia coli (E. coli) that divides every 15 minutes (generation time = 15 minutes ). If you start with 5 E. coli cells and let the culture grow for 2 hours. How many cells will you have by the end of the 2-hour growth period? A: _______ cells