How long does it take for bacteria to double or multiply?

Answer 1

when bacteria has found a warm and moist place to stay, it will start to reproduce a sexually (by itself). Each bacteria will take 20 minutes to double so in a few hours, there could be thousands.

Answer 2

Bacteria will divide every 20 minutes, in a perfect growing environment. This kind of exponential growth has the potential to be very deadly, very quickly, as bacteria kill their host cell within the human body. Luckily, bacteria hit their carrying capacity in the human body at a relatively low manageable level for the immune system to fight off due to competition resulting from such limiting factors as space and food.Bacteria in the intestines and colon can lay dormant for years until antibiotics set it off in SOME people.

Answer 3

It is the length of time it takes for bacteria to double or for one to become two. If conditions are just right, one bacterium could become one billion in just 10 hours through binary fission.
So why aren't we up to our elbows in bacteria, fungi and protists if microbes can reproduce so quickly?
It's because conditions are almost never perfect in the real world. Once there are too many microbes in one place, food runs out, their wastes pile up, they crowd each other and eventually they start dying off.

Answer 4

For bacteria that can be measured, doubling times vary from 15 minutes (e.g. E. Coli) up to an hour.

Answer 5

It would depend on the type of bacteria. Some such as E. coli can divide into four cells in 20 minutes.

Answer 6

Bacteria multiply by splitting into two parts. Under the right conditions they double their number every 10 to 30 minutes.

Answer 7

it is also known as Generation time. it is the time taken for a bacteria cell to reproduce and multiply

Answer 8

binary diffusion