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Binary fission means to "split in two". This means they don't need to find a mate to breed. Therefore, one bacteria can split into two, those two into four and so on, every few minutes in some cases. Providing there is enough space and food, the population will keep doubling.

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If the time between splitting is 1 hour, after 24 hours, there would be

2^24 bacteria which is nearly 17 million.

After 30 hours, there could be over a billion.

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