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What do you mean by single? A bacteria reproduces by binary fission creating two identical offspring with a very low mutation rate. Is the left organism the original or the right? Bacteria have progeny and the amount of progeny is due to the availability of nutrients in the environment. One bacteria could give rise to many progeny that continue to give rise to other progeny. However, it has not been studied how many progeny a single bacteria could give rise to. Are they immortal? Do they die after 100 generations?

Yeast replicate by budding and after every offspring a scar is left over. Once the yeast is covered in scars, it will die and not replicate. Bacteria are different and replicate, as mentioned before, by binary fission. To test this hypothesis is to follow one strand of DNA until the bacteria containing it dies. That stand is from the original organism and is technically the "god father" of all the progeny. This experiment seems practical, but has not been done.

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