Today the Bowflex brand is also a significant competitor in the treadmill. Bowflex, Inc. first made its name with tension-based home gyms in the 1980s. Today the Bowflex brand is also a significant competitor in the treadmill market, offering unique alternatives for cardio training. They sell fitness equipment directly to consumers and through major retailers. BowFlex is based in Vancouver, Washington.
Growth is shown as L = log(numbers) where numbers is the number of colony forming units per ml, versus T (time.). Bacterial growth is the asexual reproduction, or cell division, of a bacterium into two daughter cells, in a process called binary fission. Providing no mutational event occurs the resulting daughter cells are genetically identical to the original cell. Hence, local doubling of the bacterial population occurs.
Bacterial reproduction. Bacteria usually reproduce by a simple form of asexual reproduction called binary fission (splitting into two). This is different from the normal process of cell division in higher plants and animals which starts with mitosis. Bacteria do not have the same sort of chromosomes as these organisms so it is not necessary to have the mechanisms (mitosis) to separate them into groups.