01311nam a22001817a 450000500170000000800410001702200160005810000170007424500560009126000660014730000140021344000610022750500650028852006260035365000780097970000220105785600500107920240409081801.0240409b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0025-570X    aChase, John   aBacterial Growthb: Not So Simple (Journal Article)  aPhiladelphia, PA b:Taylor & Francis Group c, September 2023  a433-441p.  aMathematics Magazine vVolume 96: Number 4, October 2023  a***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________***

  aAbstract: Bacterial growth is used as a simple example of exponential growth, but a population often grows much faster than the average time-to-division suggests. We examine the effect of randomness in the time-to-division of individual bacteria and the aggregate population growth, revealing intricacies that are often overlooked. Specifically, the average time-to-division of individual bacteria does not by itself determine the aggregate population growth. Exponential population growth occurs in realistic scenarios, but the aggregate growth factor depends in nonobvious ways on the underlying splitting distribution.  aexponential growth | time-to-division| Gamma distributed time-to-division  aWright, Matthew    uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0025570X.2023.2232259