#population modeling

Bacterial Growth Problem with Mutation

This post is about a bacterial growth problem, you know, those ones they made you do in your college algebra class? Only this time, we’re mixing it up a bit. This time, the bacteria MUTATES. Mwa ha ha ha… Anyway, here is the problem: In a population of bacteria with doubling time 1 hour, one bacterium underwent some mutation that changed its doubling time to 1 minute. The population doubled its…